Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:22:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: julian.dunn@matrox.com (Julian C. Dunn) Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't get syslogd to accept remote datagrams Message-ID: <200001071622.LAA23358@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20000107104214.julian.dunn@matrox.com> from "Julian C. Dunn" at "Jan 7, 2000 10:42:14 am"
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Julian C. Dunn wrote, > On 07-Jan-2000 Crist J. Clark wrote: > > % man syslogd > > . > > . > > . > > ipaddr/masklen[:service] Accept datagrams from ipaddr (in the > > usual dotted quad notation) with > > masklen bits being taken into > > account > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > when doing the address comparision. > > . > > . > > . > > > > To get the effect of masking to a class C, you would want, > > > ># syslogd -a 192.168.5.0/24 > > Oh, okay, my stupidity... I see "masklen" means "number of bits to compare" as > opposed to being "bitmask". However, I also tried, at one point, > > # syslogd -a 192.168.5.5 > > Should this not have worked, since the masklen is missing and would have been > assumed to be 24? According to the docs, it should work. Actually, if you want to limit it to _just_ that machine, # syslogd -a 192.168.5.5/32 Should do it. If you are still having problems, you wouldn't happen to have a firewall on the machine accepting the syslog packets? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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