Any firewall with good log?

[pandlouk]

My personal opinion is that one of the more important feature of a firewall is it's logging ability.

But most personal firewalls that I tested give a fair report only for tcp and udp protocols. ::) :dry:

I wanted to ask what is the firewall with the most extended-detailed log that you have tested.

thanks in advance.

Panagiotis

[Alphalutra1]

CHX-I and pf both have very detailed logs that I have really enjoyed when try to figure out what I did wrong in writing a rule :P

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

[Kerodo]

The old Sygate firewall had very good logging. I think it allowed you to log things at the packet level if I remember right.. literally every packet in or out...

[Bob D]

One thing I like about Filseclab and 8-signs is that logged actions indicate which rule number determined the block or allow action taken.
Great convenience when troubleshooting / editing rules.

[Bob D]

-{ Quote: "The old Sygate firewall.....allowed you to log things at the packet level if I remember right.. literally every packet in or out..." }-
You remember correctly.
(Although OFF by default, easily enabled: Log Viewer/File/Options/Enable Full Packet Logging)

[lucas1985]

Both Kerio 2.1.5 and Jetico have decent logging.

[MaB69]

Hi,

Outpost has for me the best logging

MaB

[dave88]

-{ Quote: "The old Sygate firewall had very good logging." }-
Sygate has the best logging I've seen.

[the_sly_dog]

i will second that when i used to use sygate its logging was very informative

[noway]

Norton Personal Firewall 2004, using 45 custom-made rules (including application rules). Notice that the early DHCP activity at boot is even being logged! Pic below only showing the Firewall panel. Has been 100% reliable on this machine, with no slowdowns and uses 30-40 MB RAM.

[noway]

...(Norton Personal Firewall 2004, contd)...

...and if you want Firewall Rule statistics: