understanding LOG !

[Marco Ahrendt]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:10:07AM -0400, Patrick Boucher wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>   I have theses logs,  I would like to remove them from my
> /var/log/messages because i know theses are harmlesss
> so i ADDED this line to my firewall config: iptables -A INPUT -i
> $EXTERNAL_IF -p icmp --icmp-type 9 -s 111.222.333.444 -d 255.255.255.255
> -j DROP
> 
> And i still got this msgs in my Logs.. How can i remove it ?

you have to put this rule before you logging rules. check if you log
rule is matched before drop

regards,
marco

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