Quantcast
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 2141

Some messages show up in Wireshark, but are not captured by Kiwi Syslog

Hello,

 

I am testing Kiwi Syslog Server 9.5.0.332 with Kiwi Syslog Gen 2.2.0; both are running on separate computers.  On the computer running Kiwi Syslog Server, I am also running Wireshark 1.12.3.

 

I am trying a single pass of the "500 packet burst every 10 seconds" using UDP as the transport.

 

Now I understand that UDP is not reliable and that some messages will be lost when performing a burst like this, however I am often seeing that Syslog is only logging a subset of what Wireshark captured.  In one of my tests, Wireshark captured 492 of the syslog packets, while Kiwi Syslog only captured 204.

 

I repeated this test multiple times.  Sometimes Kiwi Syslog will capture the same number of packets as Wireshark, but more often Kiwi Syslog only captures a subset.

 

I was expecting that Kiwi Syslog would always capture the same number of syslog packets as Wireshark.  What might be causing this problem?

 

I attached a filtered version of the Wireshark capture (only UDP packets directed at port 514), and the Syslog capture (in case it helps)

 

Thanks

Ken


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 2141

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>