RE: RFC 3164 i.e. BSD Syslog Protocol

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>
>In theory there's no reason multicast SYSLOG shouldn't work.  
>The packet 
>format doesn't need to change and you just need to bind to a multicast 
>socket.  I haven't any idea how implementations will currently behave.
>
>But you're addressing two separate problems- distribution and 
>reliability.  Reliability is addressed with SYSLOG/BEEP, which 
>I believe 
>is a Proposed Standard (RFC 3195).
>

Part of the reliability standard is TCP based. Hence, multicast is not
Supported. On the UDP side, it can be done.

Thanks,

Atul

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