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Firewall Logs

The Firewall item allows you to take a look at the packet filtering logs for your firewall.

You'll find reports for all firewall chains here. Reports can be generated according to different criteria:

Clicking on the at the left of each of the above items will show the corresponding Firewall Logs Summary window, for example:

Generated Mon Apr 15 11:16:09 ART 2002 by root.
5 of 456 items in the file "/var/log/messages" are packet logs, one has unique characteristics.
First packet log entry: Apr 15 10:53:26; last: Apr 15 10:53:26.
All entries where logged by the same host: "e500".
All entries are from the same chain: "Shorewall:fw2all:REJECT:".
All entries have the same target: "-".
All entries are from the same interface: "".
Only entries with a count larger than 2 are shown.

After the above messages follows a table with the packet details.

This logs might not be immediately available due to system activity.

Click on "Refresh" to get the latest entries.