by the way, in case it's not obvious, I'm not speaking for Rainer, adiscon or
any other developer here. This may capture someone's attention, or if you can
explain why you need it, it may sound important enough for someone to jump in
and implement it.
Having people ask for it is the first step :-) I believe that you are the first
person to ask for IPv6 support for this since it was added to rsyslog. We know
that there are some people using it (we've had bug reports), but not many. In my
case, we ended up scrapping the system that required it because it had too many
other problems. So after I implemented it and submitted it upstream, we ended up
never using it outside a lab.
David Lang
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, David Lang wrote:
anything's possible :-)
Rsyslog gains new capabilities by a couple of different methods
1. people write a feature and submit it. This is how the UDP spoofing module
came about, my company needed this capability, so I wrote a module and
submitted it (it's been improved since then)
2. people sponsor someone else to write a feature (Rainer and adiscon do this
sort of work all the time, contact him directly for a quote on adding the
feature if you're interested)
3. people suggest features and they go somewhere on a mile-long TODO list, if
there is enough interest from other people, Rainer or someone else will write
the feature.
unfortunantly, things are being added to the TODO list faster than they are
being implemented (not an unusual situation), so you need to make a case that
a feature is needed by a lot of people, or somehow make it 'interesting'
enough for someone to want to tackle.
In the particular case of UDP spoofing, this is only needed if you are
relaying messages to a broken syslog system that ignores the hostname in the
header and only looks at the IP address in the packet. The amount of interest
in working around such broken systems tends to not be very high (for some
strange reason ;-)
I'll point out that it's very easy to have the rsyslog relay box replace the
hostname in the message with the IP address of the sending system if the
issue you are trying to deal with is trusting the hostname in the message.
If you can deal with structured data on the receiver, you can even put both
in the message without loosing any ability to parse out the original info.
David Lang
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Ganji, Shashirekha Yadav wrote:
Thanks for your response.
Is it possible to have this capability in future or any other way to
incorporate this into rsyslog?
Thanks,
shashi
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lang
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 12:47 PM
To: rsyslog-users
Subject: Re: [rsyslog] UDP spoofing output module (omudpspoof)
this module does not talk IPv6, so it can't forge IPv6 source addresses or
send to IPv6 destination addresses.
David Lang
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013, Ganji, Shashirekha Yadav wrote:
Hello team,
I had a question on the mentioned output module.
It is mentioned that "IPv6 is currently not supported. If you need this
capability, please let us know via the rsyslog mailing list." As a known
issue.I need more clarity on this.
Does it mean this output module does not support IPV6 address for target
or overall IPV6 traffic.
Thanks,
shashi
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