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Informational Messages [severity Info]

Log messages in the range 100-199 are informational. They are standard operational messages which indicate the gateway is operating properly. The message number, the message text, and a description of these messages follow:

101
Eagle Network Isolator starting up

The gateway control program gwcontrol has been restarted.

102
Shutdown command received, gwcontrol quitting

gwcontrol received the command to stop all current connections and terminate. No new connections will be possible until gwcontrol is restarted.

103
service(id): closing connection

This message shows the orderly end of a connection. This should have a matching connection message (105) based on the id.

104
re-read of new config file successful

gwcontrol received the command to reconfigure itself and successfully executed it.

105
service(id): connection for incoming to outgoing (rule line N)

This message describes a connection made from the incoming host to the outgoing host for the service, i.e., telnet or ftp. The identification number for the connection is id. The line number within the configuration file is N.

106
traceroute: to trace: host1 - ... - hostn

This message is generated by the traceroute program. It lists the probable path through the network that packets between the Eagle and the trace host take.

107
changelog: closing log file

108
changelog: starting new log file

The log file is changed daily. At midnight, the changelog program renames the old log file to oldlogs/logfile.YYMMDD and a new log file is created.

109
passer: re-reading config file

passer checks every few seconds to see if its configuration file has been modified. If it has, it will apply the changes to its running configuration and display this message.

110
service(id): user user authenticated on connection from incoming to outgoing

The connection from incoming to outgoing required the user to authenticate himself, which was successfully completed. This message is only generated if the Gateway User Database has been set up.

111
service(id): direction file filename (N bytes) Error

FTP logs all file transfers with this message. The direction is either retrieved or put and filename is the name of the client side file. The number of bytes copied is also reported and any error is noted.



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