Firewall logs are verbose, and utterly boring to look at. It’s hard to pick out the important parts, like what the IP or destination port was. If you use vim/gvim to view the logs, there’s a syntax file I put together to make them more readable. Get it from https://github.com/gburca/vim-firewall
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Vim syntax highlighting for firewall logs.