On Saturday 20 August 2005 06:36, Claude Jones wrote: > I can't seem to engage my brain on this. It's a simple task on my > Windows firewall, and I'm sure it's the same on Fedora. I would > like to do two things, neither of which I have been able to > figure out. 1) Pull up a log and look at recent traffic - what's > passing, what's been denied > 2) Open a window that shows this 'live' - in other words, execute > some command that leads to the outside world, and watch what the > firewall does What are the appropriate tools? > -- > Claude Jones > Bluemont, VA, USA In addition to the iptables that Rakotomandimby mentioned, spend some time with tcpdump, iptraf, and ethereal for live packet captures. Regards, Mike Klinke