On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:28:26AM -0400, John Swope wrote: > After having read the scale of some of the systems/configurations > being discussed on the list, I feel pretty cheesy in even mentioning > this, Don't. Syslog is syslog is syslog, and the issues involved are much the same no matter what you're doing. > but my little Linksys cable/dsl NATing router will send syslog > messages to either a unicast address or to the broadcast address of > the LAN's ethernet segment. It works. And if broadcasting works on > this $100 toy then I would assume that it will work on bigger/fancier > systems. Similarly, UDP is UDP is UDP, so this is a perfectly fine example of syslog working over the broadcast address. To answer the other half of the OP's question, it should work fine on multicast, as well; I haven't set that up, myself, but I _have_ had to lock down some Cisco routers that were listening on multicast after it was discovered that IOS didn't deal well with malformed syslog packets a few years ago. -- Sweth. -- Sweth Chandramouli ; <svcat_private> President, Idiopathic Systems Consulting
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