[syslog-ng]Syslog tunneling

Dennis Kruyt d.kruyt@zx.nl
Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:06:27 +0100


I want to use stunnel, but how can i define the different sources becouse
with stunnel.
they all come from the same IP addres so how can i filter out multiple
hosts with using stunnel

maybe you can mail me a syslog-ng.conf file so i can get on.

Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: <dan@devirtus.com>
To: <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]Syslog tunneling


> Yes, I have been able to do it using stunnel.  The only issue you will run
> across is that of windows clients to the log-box.  I am not very familiar
> with windows (long live UNIX...) and was unable to get even a tcp based
> client to work, let alone tcp wrapped under SSL.  I have been thinking
> about conning one of the windows programmers around my office (although
> they all _claim_ not to know windows) to write a windows based tcp client
> under stunnel.  I've looked at the windows API for recieving the streams
> of events and it doesn't look to difficult, but I'm just not a windows
> programmer.  Anyway, if you are doing it strictly under unix, or don't
> mind having a mixed UNIX/TCP/SSL and Windows/UDP/Cleartext environment you
> should be fine.  The only trouble I think I had when I set it up was
> figuring out the daemon mode vs. inetd mode for stunnel.  Should be no
> sweat.  -Dan
>
>
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Dennis wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to setup a secure way of remote logging by means of
tunneling.
> > I'm running syslog-ng so I'm able to do remote logging
> > over tcp instead of udp. But the setup is as usual 1 loghost and several
> > others sending all logs to the port the syslog-ng is listening on on the
> > loghost..I was wondering..is it possible to use stunnel somehow to
secure
> > the log packets travelling the hostile internet to the loghost?
> > It would mean that there have to be more tunnels from different hosts
> > towards de one logging...
> > Running out of knowledge and before wasting valuable time, i would like
to know if there are people who have set up a secure logging facility in the
> > past for syslog-ng?
> >
> > Dennis,
> >
>
>
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