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Hi Rainier

A Merry Xmas to you

We released our system into the live environment today using 4.1.2(dev4), and all well so far.
except for 2 small things.
1.) when i tested %HOSTNAME% on my WINDOWS test system it gave me my ip address eg 192.155.22.33, BUT when i run it on a live CENTOS system it just brings back the letters DEC
2.) Its HORRIBLE slow if i include a gateway address on the ETH card. if i remove it its fine. but we need the gateway to gain access to the net.


Please assist

Cheers
Stuart

• Custom written rsyslog.conf?
• Maintenance Contract?
• Installation support?

anyone?

ive got further feedback
it says when i run rsyslog in debug
imudp.c: Host name for your address (192.155.22.33) unknown.

This is the value that i need to put into the HOSTNAME field.
how would i set rsyslog or Linux up to do this?

ok i found the fix. it turns out that windows and linux run the log messages slightly differetly for cisco(weird)
on windows the property replacer %HOSTNAME% works fine
but in linux i have to use fromhost...
anyway. it works.

sorry, I am quite busy in front of the holiday... HOSTNAME always depends on what the remote sender puts in. There are various anomalies. In the latest devel version, I know that I did some parser enhancements for Cisco. so if you don't run the latest, that may be worth trying.

On the IPv6 issue: there is one IPv6 fix in 4.1.2, other than that I can not think of anything that affects performance.