> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of lanas
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:30 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Remote logging and dummy IP
> 
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:36:42 +0200,
> "Rainer Gerhards" <[email protected]> wrote :
> 
> > > > On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, lanas wrote:
> > > > >  Is it possible to specify a dummy IP for all outgoing rsyslog
> > > > > packets destined to a remote logging application ?
> 
> > I do not fully understand your question, but the first sample in the
> > doc seems to do what I guess you want:
> 
> > http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/omudpspoof.html
> 
> There is a growing number of setups that have to specify a dummy
> address for certain services (not only remote sys-logging) as the
> source
> IP of the packet (and not the IP of the interface by which it is sent)
> in order to observe some security requieremnts.
> 
> The omudpspoof configuration seems to be doing that: I will try it.  Is
> the $ActionUDPSpoofTargetHost a mandatory parameter to have this
> working ?  I'd have thought that setting the source IP of the packet
> would be independent of any target.

This is a forwarding action. It needs to know where to forward to. It is told
so by the target host. So, yes, this is mandatory.

Rainer
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