Messages in this thread | | | From | (Zygo Blaxell) | Subject | Re: fsync on large files | Date | 16 Feb 1999 18:16:22 -0500 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.990214012722.6598B-100000@z.ml.org>, Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org> wrote: >On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Simon Kirby wrote: >Or.. You could have multiple logging servers... The changes of both going >down are slim.. Infact, if you are sick enough you could perhaps setup >an alias interface with on each of them with the same IP and configure >firewalling to ignore everything on that interface except for syslog >traffic. Since syslog is UDP, this would probably work and keep the remote >servers from having to send n* packets for n computers.
This would work except for ARP. When syslog tries to find this machine it will send an ARP request for its ethernet hardware address, choose one of the log servers, and send all further traffic to it.
Now if only I could send syslog packets to the broadcast address. That would be neat.
-- Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation, zygob@corel.ca (work), zblaxell@furryterror.org (play). It's my opinion, I tell you! Mine! All MINE! Size of 'diff -Nurw [...] winehq corel' as of Tue Feb 16 17:14:00 EST 1999 Lines/files: In 277 / 3, Out 20653 / 255, Both 20923 / 256
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