use swatch and direct it to beep on the events you want monitored ..... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Tobin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BSD Freak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 8:15 PM Subject: Re: A cool IPF firewall trick
> > I run several FreeBSD/IPF based firewalls. I would really like to get > > some sort of basic visual representation as to what the firewall is > > doing without actually logging in and tailing logs. My idea is to have > > the HDD LED (red) light up when IPF blocks packets with an ipf block > > rule and the power LED (green) light up when traffic is passed with an > > ipf pass rule. > > You could have rules to send the packets to divert sockets (as is done > for NAT), and write a program to respond to them. See divert(4) and > natd(8). > > It would be easier to use the keyboard leds (KDSETLED ioctl) than the > disk and power leds, I think. > > -- Richard > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
