Re: [SLUG] hosts.allow vs. syslogd vs. router

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Oct 09 2003 - 15:26:25 EDT


On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Matt Miller wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 October 2003 07:26 pm, Eben King wrote:
> > I restarted the router, and pulled the plug/reconnected it. That is
> > log-worthy, even if nothing else is. Still nothing.
>
> Did you try shaking the router vigorously? :-)

Heh. To see if any bits fall out?

> I imagiine the web based administrative console lacks a means of testing
> syslog capability.

Yes. It _says_ it's doing it, but I'm not sure...

> I agree with some of the other posters - dumping the network traffic
> from the router on the syslog server is your best bet.

Yes, did that. I saw no syslog-port data, but lots of ARPs (for external
machines as well as internal machines) when the router was restarted. If
I don't hear back from USR's tech support today. I'll call them.

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