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@@ -535,6 +535,15 @@ framing and maximum compression to the host 192.168.0.1 at port 1470.</p>
<p>In the example above, messages are forwarded via UDP to the machine
192.168.0.1, the destination port defaults to 514. Messages will not be
compressed.</p>
+<p>Note that IPv6 addresses contain colons. So if an IPv6 address is specified
+in the hostname part, rsyslogd could not detect where the IP address ends
+and where the port starts. There is a syntax extension to support this:
+put squary brackets around the address (e.g. "[2001::1]"). Square
+brackets also work with real host names and IPv4 addresses, too.
+<p>A valid sample to send messages to the IPv6 host 2001::1 at port 515
+is as follows:
+<p>*.* @[2001::1]:515
+<p>This works with TCP, too.
<p><b>Note to sysklogd users:</b> sysklogd does <b>not</b> support RFC 3164
format, which is the default forwarding template in rsyslog. As such, you will
experience duplicate hostnames if rsyslog is the sender and sysklogd is the