[syslog-ng] syslog-ng and multiple interfaces

[Pavel Shaydo]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 15:48 -0700, brandon askme wrote:
> Hello-
> I have successfully moved all of our servers over to syslog-ng. All
> but a few are reporting to the remote "logging" server I have setup.
> What I have found is that the clients that are not reporting have
> multiple interfaces, IE eth0, eth0:1, eth1 etc.. Thus the current
> firewall rules are not setup to allow all the ips. So my question is,
> can I configure syslog-ng to only use a certain ip/interface when
> sending the logs to the remote logging server? The clients and the
> remote logging server are running Linux.
> 

Hello,

probably you should look on localip() option of destination driver.

destination d_tcp { tcp("10.1.2.3" port(1999); localip("10.3.2.1") ); };


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Best regards,
Pavel Shaydo