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Date:      Fri, 07 Jan 2000 10:42:14 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Julian C. Dunn" <julian.dunn@Matrox.COM>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't get syslogd to accept remote datagrams
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20000107104214.julian.dunn@matrox.com>
In-Reply-To: <200001071540.KAA23276@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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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?

- Julian

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