Firewall, How active are your logs?

[Luden]

I get somthing at least every 20 minutes.. How many people are trying to checkout your system?

 

[Walleye]

i dont know how to check my firewall.

 

[Luden]

hmm.. Most keep logs or tell you when somthing happens. Every now and then I get bored and pull out slap. Nifty program..

 

[Atlantean]

Originally posted by: Walleye
i dont know how to check my firewall.

Me neither, I used to run Black Ice Defender, but I now just have the one that comes with windows xp pro.

 

[Walleye]

then i use 2. i use a box firewall, and the one in XP pro.

 

[arcas]

The activity at home varies. On a busy day, logs might total a few hundred KB. I run an IP logger and an IDS (snort) in addition to a firewall and I have a copy of their log messages routed to a transparent background window so I can watch things in real time if necessary. I used to have everything piped through a Perl regex which would color-code the log messages based on type and severity but that had some problems so I'm back to monochrome for now :-/. The IP logger generates the most log noise by far, followed by the IDS. The firewall actually generates the least amount of log traffic.