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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:37:53 -0400
From:      Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Subject:   Re: forwarding as a gateway, logging certain traffic
Message-ID:  <CC7F9A36-1D5B-4064-9E55-7D3A2E36CAB5@chrononomicon.com>
In-Reply-To: <B7DDE980-7DB8-4AB8-AA85-8FD89638469C@mac.com>
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On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
>>> Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using
>>> port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of
>>> email function?  Or at least make the traffic visible to sniffing
>>> with tcpdump or wireshark or ethereal?
>>
>> Off the top of my head ...
>> ipfw add 25 log tcp from any to any 25
>> should work.  There are certain kernel configs you have to have in
>> place for logging to work, though.
>
> Better to use something like:
>
> 	ipfw add 1 log tcp from any to me 25 setup
>
> If Bart would like to use tcpdump for the same purpose, consider  
> running something like:
>
> 	tcpdump -nt 'port 25 and (tcp[tcpflags] & tcp-syn != 0)'

Maybe my ipfw is old; it kept telling me that "log" is an invalid  
action.  However, I think I may be able to get the tcpdump idea to work.

Thanks!



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