Gene Heskett wrote: > This, after removing the appropriate # comments, and restarting rsyslog seems > to have worked, however the messages are being intermixed with this machines > messages. They are marked as coming from the 'router', I presume by a > gethostbynumber call someplace. > > This gives a nice trigger if I can figure out how to use it: I think it's something like: :hostname, isequal, "router" *.* /var/log/DD_WRT_router.log It may be exactly that, but I haven't tested so I won't say that. See http://www.rsyslog.com/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=/rsyslog_conf.html, http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_conf_filter.html, http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-property_replacer.html, http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_conf_actions.html, and http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/LighttpdVhostErrorlogs > I would like to put those in their own log. Is that possible? Yes. > >> which appears to be what you have to uncomment to receive messages. >> Do you want to receive TCP or UDP? > > Not sure, so I enabled both. :) That will slow it down, and rsyslog is speed-critical (to ensure you don't miss any logs). >> Try to understand if data is coming to your machine with >> >> tcpdump -i eth0 -n -n > > That was very informative, the major portion of the net traffic here is > being generated by arp, scanning the local subnet asking whohas, getting > to .254 and resuming at 1. That was so noisy if I saw anything from the > router it scrolled offscreen so fast I couldn't read it. Try: tcpdump -i eth0 -n -n | grep "\.514" Or you could grep based on your router's IP. > That could be > turned off because I use host files here for the majority of my stuff. That's not right. ARP resolves IPs to MAC addresses. It doesn't matter if you never transmit hostnames across the network. > AFAIKT from the services config there is no arp daemon running. Oh, ARP is running. Matt Flaschen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines