Re: Log integrity handling on central logsystem

"Marcus J. Ranum" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.loganalysis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John H. Sawyer wrote:
>If you could afford two systems, have your one system accepting the logs
>and another system that has no IP sniffing the wire for the logs as they
>go by. Now you have two sources and can compare them later.

By the way, if anyone wants it:
http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/index.html
"plog" -- a promiscuous mode syslog collector. It pulls up
UDP syslog packets, rips the syslog data right out of them
and injects them up /dev/log.

On good hardware it may be more reliable than syslogd
because it bypasses UDP input queues.

mjr.
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