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Here is a log sample from the WIPFW firewall for Windows. More information about WIPFW can be found at http://wipfw.sourceforge.net. If you’re using Windows, I can’t recommend WIPFW highly enough. It is Open Source and is the most highly configurable firewall product I’ve found for Windows to date. (Understand WIPFW is a straight network firewall; it does no application access control or anything along those lines. If that’s what you need, you’ll need to use something else like [[Zone_Alarm|Zone Alarm]].)

WIPFW puts these logs in your C:Windowssecuritylogs directory. The log format is fairly simple. The first number is the log entry, followed by the date and the time. After “ipfw:” is the firewall rule number (1000 in the above example), followed by the action and the protocol. The rest is self-explanatory.