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Vim Syntax Highlighting for Firewall Logs

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

Here’s a before/after image (click for the full size):

Vim syntax highlighting for firewall logs.

Vim syntax highlighting for firewall logs.

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