Netgear FVS318v1 – Prosafe Wireless N VPN Firewall Reference Manual

Managing Your Network

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Router operation (start up, get time, etc.)

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Known DoS attacks and Port Scans

You can choose to write the logs to a PC running a syslog program. To activate this feature, check 
the box under Syslog and enter the IP address of the server where the log file will be written.

Following are examples of log messages. In all cases, the log entry shows the timestamp as:    Day, 
Year-Month-Date  Hour:Minute:Second

Tue, 2002-05-21 18:48:39 - NETGEAR activated 

[This entry indicates a power-up or reboot with initial time entry.]

Tue, 2002-05-21 18:55:00 - Administrator login successful - IP:192.168.0.2 
Thu, 2002-05-21 18:56:58 - Administrator logout - IP:192.168.0.2 

[This entry shows an administrator logging in and out from IP address 192.168.0.2.]

Tue, 2002-05-21 19:00:06 - Login screen timed out - IP:192.168.0.2

[This entry shows a time-out of the administrator login.]

Wed, 2002-05-22 22:00:19 - Log emailed

[This entry shows when the log was emailed.]

Wed, 2002-05-22 07:15:15 - TCP packet dropped - Source:64.12.47.28,4787,WAN - 
Destination:134.177.0.11,21,LAN - [Inbound Default rule match]
Sun, 2002-05-22 12:50:33 - UDP packet dropped - Source:64.12.47.28,10714,WAN - 
Destination:134.177.0.11,6970,LAN - [Inbound Default rule match]
Sun, 2002-05-22 21:02:53 - ICMP packet dropped - Source:64.12.47.28,0,WAN - 
Destination:134.177.0.11,0,LAN - [Inbound Default rule match]

[These entries show an inbound FTP (port 21) packet, UDP packet (port 6970), and ICMP 
packet (port 0) being dropped as a result of the default inbound rule, which states that all 
inbound packets are denied.]