[syslog-ng] spoof_source not working

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Thu Oct 13 12:25:03 CEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:50 -0400, Chance Ellis wrote:
> Nate,
>  
> Thanks for replying. I did try that but I get the same results... UDP
> destinations work until I add the spoof_source to the destination.
>  
> How does the spoof_source work? Does it call some external library
> that I have the wrong version of on the Solaris9 boxes? What about
> lex? I also ran debug on the syslog-ng runtime and it just spews a
> bunch of senseless info. Might it be helpful if I post that?

it uses libnet to generate output packets. you might try to truss
syslog-ng as it tries to send a spoofed source packet and see what it
does.

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Bazsi



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