[Techtalk] more firewall log questions

[Daniel Pittman]

Nadine Leenders <nadine.leenders at ualberta.ca> writes:

G'day Nadine.

> Another question about firewall logs.  Is it normal to have entries being
> continually logged?  I'm getting about 4 entries each minute.
>
> Some of them I understand, and am OK with, should these still be logged?

I doubt anyone can say if they should be logged or not without seeing what the
actual packets are.  However, the "background radiation" of the Internet is a
reasonably steady stream of junk packets that a strict firewall will reject,
and those figures don't sound out of the ordinary.

        Daniel
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