> Hi all, > > I'd appreciate your feedback on this question. > > Historically, syslog messages were not only received on port 514, but > were also send from that port. This is an artifact from the fact that > early syslogd used a single port both for sending and receiving. So far, > I have maintained that and done so with some pain. With v3, I would like > to get rid of this legacy (because it introduces inter-module > dependencies and also makes multiple listeners really complicated). > > So I wonder if anyone over here finds this "feature" (syslog messages > are sent from port 514 by default) important. What pops up my mind are > firewall rules. Is there anything else broken if we change that?
We use syslog pretty extensively here at the ISP I work for and I don't see how this would affect anything we do. Firewall rules are almost always bast on destination port, not sending port. I don't think changing this would cause any problems. -- Scott Baker - Canby Telcom RHCE - System Administrator - 503.266.8253 _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog
