Network Stream Drivers

Network stream drivers are a layer between various parts of rsyslogd (e.g. the imtcp module) and the transport layer. They provide sequenced delivery, authentication and confidentiality to the upper layers. Drivers implement different capabilities.

Users need to know about netstream drivers because they need to configure the proper driver, and proper driver properties, to achieve desired results (e.g. a TLS-protected syslog transmission).

The following drivers exist:

• ptcp - the plain tcp network transport (no security)
• gtls - a secure TLS transport implemented via the GnuTLS library

This documentation is part of the rsyslog project.
Copyright © 2008 by Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon. Released under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.