On 14/12/09 14:13, Duncan Hall wrote: > Today I had an issue where the pfsense firewall (1.2.3RC3) could not > access the remote syslog on another server because of a network fault > (dead switch). > > The end result of this was the firewall stopped responding after > behaving intermittently. I imagine the firewall buffered the messages > until the memory was full. > > If there an automated way of telling the firewall to not use remote > syslog if it is not available? I would prefer to lose the logs rather > than have an unstable firewall. >
this seems an unlikely cause to me as syslog uses udp, so if the network path goes away the packets will simply be lost. could it have been a different problem - loss of DNS lookups for the remote syslog server? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
