[syslog-ng] TTL patch, helpful for multicasting logs

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 12:27 +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Bad of me to reply to my own posting....
> 
> Alexander Clouter <ac56 at soas.ac.uk> [20060503 12:23:53 +0100]:
> >
> > [snipped]
> >
> > I would recommend *only* when its a bind address that 
> > setsockopt(MULTICAST_BLAH) is called...
> > 
> to clarify
> 
> binding wise you need to call ADD_MEMBERSHIP but TTL has no net effect.  For 
> sending the data to a multicast address ADD_MEMBERSHIP should not be used 
> whilst the TTL functionality is pretty much critical to the whole thing.

I'm using IP_MULTICAST_TTL instead of IP_TTL when the destination is a
multicast address, but you are right that I should not call
IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP if syslog-ng is only sending to multicast. I'm going
to change that. Thanks for the comments.

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Bazsi