Probably silly Q

[Robin Laing]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 March 2006 08:28, Craig White wrote:
> 
> 
> I couldn't make sense out of the ethereal output, but I am seeing quite 
> a bit of this when I run:
> 
> tcpdump -i eth0 -p udp
> 
> and scattered amonst the dns queries is a few of these:
> ========
> 09:27:09.106059 router.coyote.den.16139 > 192.168.1.100.snmptrap:  
> Trap(35)  E:3093.2.2.1 192.168.1.1 
> enterpriseSpecific[specific-trap(1)!=0] 25922015 [|snmp]
> ========
> but this router doesn't do the mrtg thing that I'm aware of.  Its a 
> linksys BEFSR41, latest firmware.
> 
> But, is this the data I want?  In case yes, how do I go about logging it 
> to a unique logfile?  I don't see it being rejected or dropped in 
> iptables.
> 
> 
> 
>>The RH 7.3 system may have a very different version of syslogd and
>>behave differently
>>
>>Craig
> 

I looked into this some years ago and I think that the remote logging 
is more of a handshaking feature with software required on the logging 
computer for the BEFSR41 router.  I have one of these and I wanted to 
do the same thing.  I gave up.

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Robin Laing