Re: dropped RX packets - belongs this to firehol?

"Tsaousis, Costa" <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:24:43 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.firehol.user
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Hi Daniel,

where do you see dropped packets? ifconfig?
If yes, firehol has nothing to do with it. Dropped packets by firehol are
logged to syslog by iptables. They do not affect anything at the network
interfaces.

Costa


On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Daniel Heckl <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I use Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS with Kernel 4.4. For quite some time I notice
> dropped RX packets (e.g. 502), but I have no restrictions.
>
> Belongs this to firehol, e.g. increases the counter if firehol/iptables
> drops an packet? Is this normal?
>
> Thanks
> Daniel
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