Drop.log, a line based information for dropped packets
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+.. note:: This output has been deprecated and will be removed by
+ June 2020.
+
If Suricata works in IPS mode, it can drop packets based on
rules. Packets that are being dropped are saved in the drop.log file,
a Netfilter log format.
- drop:
enabled: yes #The option is enabled.
filename: drop.log #The log-name of the file for dropped packets.
- append: yes #If this option is set to yes, the last filled drop.log-file will not be
- #overwritten while restarting Suricata. If set to 'no' the last filled drop.log file will be overwritten.
+ append: yes #If this option is set to yes, the last filled
+ #drop.log-file will not be overwritten while
+ #restarting Suricata. If set to 'no' the last
+ #filled drop.log file will be overwritten.
+ filetype: regular #regular, unis_stream, unix_dgram
.. _suricata-yaml-file-store: