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Date:      Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:59:05 -0500
From:      "James E. Housley" <housley@frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net>
To:        Chad Dubuque <freebsdstable@rrnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syslogd "fixes"
Message-ID:  <36F46079.3238C049@frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net>
References:  <199903210058.SAA15530@rrnet.com>

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Chad Dubuque wrote:
> 
> I have a 2.2.7-RELEASE and a 3.1-RELEASE machine. I'm trying to send the 3.1
> machine syslog messages from a Cisco router. The 2.1.7 machine accepts the
> messages fine, but the 3.1 doesn't. I've run "tcpdump" and can see the
> messages getting to the machine, but syslogd doesn't seem to like them. I've
> run syslogd without any options and with "-a 10.1.1.8:*" to try to get it to
> like messages from the Cisco.
> 
> The 3.1 is at 10.1.9.43 -netmask 255.0.0.0, the router is at 10.1.1.1. Am I
> missing something obvious, or is there a problem with syslogd now that its
> default behaviour is to ignore messages from the outside unless configured
> to accept them?
> 
Are you running syslogd with the -a parameter set to the proper value. 
I would guess that it is 10.0.0.0/8

syslogd -a 10.0.0.0/8

Check the 3.1 syslogd man page for more details.

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