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diff --git a/doc/imtcp.html b/doc/imtcp.html index ecc72748..9ea7efa1 100644 --- a/doc/imtcp.html +++ b/doc/imtcp.html @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ <html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en"><title>TCP Syslog Input Module</title></head> <body> +<a href="rsyslog_conf_modules.html">back</a> + <h1>TCP Syslog Input Module</h1> <p><b>Module Name: imtcp</b></p> <p><b>Author: </b>Rainer Gerhards @@ -12,17 +14,43 @@ Encryption can be provided by using <a href="rsyslog_stunnel.html">stunnel</a> (an alternative is the use the <a href="imgssapi.html">imgssapi</a> modul).</p> -<p>In the future, multiple receivers may be configured by +<p>Multiple receivers may be configured by specifying -$InputTCPServerRun multiple times. This is not currently supported. +$InputTCPServerRun multiple times. This is available since version 4.3.1, earlier +versions do NOT support it. </p> <p><b>Configuration Directives</b>:</p> <ul> +<li>$InputTCPServerAddtlFrameDelimiter <Delimiter><br> +This directive permits to specify an additional frame delimiter for plain tcp syslog. +The industry-standard specifies using the LF character as frame delimiter. Some vendors, +notable Juniper in their NetScreen products, use an invalid frame delimiter, in Juniper's +case the NUL character. This directive permits to specify the ASCII value of the delimiter +in question. Please note that this does not guarantee that all wrong implementations can +be cured with this directive. It is not even a sure fix with all versions of NetScreen, +as I suggest the NUL character is the effect of a (common) coding error and thus will +probably go away at some time in the future. But for the time being, the value 0 can +probably be used to make rsyslog handle NetScreen's invalid syslog/tcp framing. +For additional information, see this +<a href="http://kb.monitorware.com/problem-with-netscreen-log-t1652.html">forum thread</a>. +<br><b>If this doesn't work for you, please do not blame the rsyslog team. Instead file +a bug report with Juniper!</b> +<br>Note that a similar, but worse, issue exists with Cisco's IOS implementation. They do +not use any framing at all. This is confirmed from Cisco's side, but there seems to be +very limited interest in fixing this issue. This directive <b>can not</b> fix the Cisco bug. +That would require much more code changes, which I was unable to do so far. Full details +can be found at the <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Article321.phtml">Cisco tcp syslog anomaly</a> +page. <li>$InputTCPServerRun <port><br> Starts a TCP server on selected port</li> <li><ul><li>$InputTCPMaxSessions <number></li></ul> Sets the maximum number of sessions supported</li><li>$InputTCPServerStreamDriverMode <number><br> -Sets the driver mode for the currently selected <a href="netstream.html">network stream driver</a>. <number> is driver specifc.</li><li>$InputTCPServerStreamDriverAuthMode <mode-string><br> +Sets the driver mode for the currently selected <a href="netstream.html">network stream driver</a>. <number> is driver specifc.</li> +<li>$InputTCPServerInputName <name><br> +Sets a name for the inputname property. If no name is set "imtcp" is used by default. Setting a +name is not strictly necessary, but can be useful to apply filtering based on which input +the message was received from. +<li>$InputTCPServerStreamDriverAuthMode <mode-string><br> Sets the authentication mode for the currently selected <a href="netstream.html">network stream driver</a>. <mode-string> is driver specifc.</li><li>$InputTCPServerStreamDriverPermittedPeer <id-string><br> Sets permitted peer IDs. Only these peers are able to connect to the listener. <id-string> semantics depend on the currently selected @@ -31,7 +59,6 @@ AuthMode and <a href="netstream.html">network stream driver</a>. Permitted <b>Caveats/Known Bugs:</b> <ul> <li>module always binds to all interfaces</li> -<li>only a single listener can be bound</li> <li>can not be loaded together with <a href="imgssapi.html">imgssapi</a> (which includes the functionality of imtcp)</li> </ul> |