monitoring IP traffic

[Rakotomandimby Mihamina]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 07:36 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> 1) Pull up a log and look at recent traffic - what's passing, what's
> been 
> denied
> 2) Open a window that shows this 'live' - in other words, execute some
> command 
> that leads to the outside world, and watch what the firewall does
> What are the appropriate tools? 

iptables.
You can use "-j ULOG" or "-j LOG" then the information about matchig
packets are logged.
they are not terminating rules, so that you can safely do anything, but
keep in mind that some could bloat you logfile with it...

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