On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Andreas Mock <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi David, > > thank you for your answer. > > a) Yes, I meant the source IP of the outgoing log packet. > b) Do I understand it right that there is no way to influence > which IP is taken in the case there are two equivalent (in the > sense of routing) IP adresses? A kind of explicit binding? > > I think it's not implemented. Maybe in the current versions. Rainer > Best regards > Andreas Mock > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] Im Auftrag von David Lang > Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Februar 2014 08:16 > An: rsyslog-users > Betreff: Re: [rsyslog] How to config the IP address of outgoing upd/tcp > log messages > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Andreas Mock wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > after hours of debugging a problem (rsyslog 5.8.10) and searching the > docs and google > > I'm totally frustrated and want to ask you the following: > > > > - I want to send log messages out to a remote syslog server => no problem > > - But I don't know how to tell the sending side to use a certain IP > address. > > I have bound two IP addresses to one device and the IP address of the > alias and > > NOT the main interface is taken. > > - Can someone explain the rules which IP address is taken and how I can > influence it? > > when you say "which IP address is taken" do you mean the source IP address > for > the packet? > > If so, the answer is that unless you set things up otherwise with iptables > tricks, the source IP is going to be the IP of the interface picked by the > routing table to get to that destination, exactly the same way that the > source > IP would be selected for SSH, your web browser, or just about every other > piece > of software on your system. > > David Lang > > > Some information: > > - 'uname -n' is "test" > > - host "test" resolves to main ip > > - host "main ip" resolves to "test.full.domain" > > - hostname resolves to "test" > > - hostname -d resolves to "full.domain" > > > > > > > > Best regards > > Andreas Mock > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rsyslog mailing list > > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
