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> * ml at t-b-o-h.net (Tuc at T-B-O-H) [Sat 23 Jul 2005, 02:26 CEST]:
> > I'd like to hear offlist from anyone that is using lower end
> >Foundry equipment (FWS4802, FSLB8) and syslogging to FreeBSD. For some
> >reason as perfect as the packet looks, and as well as I've set up my
> >syslog.conf, I can't get it to log.
>
> FreeBSD defaults to not accepting syslog packets from the network,
> have you overridden in /etc/rc.conf the "-s" flag to syslogd from
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf, possibly with some "-a" options?
>
Yea, but I was using the :

-a IP/MASK

format.... It ended up that I had to change it to :

-a IP/MASK:*

So that it would accept syslog from any origination port number,
not just the syslog port #.

So its fixed, thank you!

Tuc