Re: [PLUG] solution: how to keep iptables from spamming the console

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@toren.net>]

> The solutions to the iptables question raised at the meeting last night
> is in the man page for iptables(8):
[..]
>        --log-level level
>               Level of logging (numeric or see syslog.conf(5)).

Combining the "limit" MATCH extension with the LOG target handler can also
be very effective to combat noisy logging messages.  Something along the
lines of:

	iptables [...] -m limit --limit 3/minute --limit-burst 3 -j LOG

-mct
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