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-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-<html><head><title>TLS-protected syslog: UDP relay setup</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-
-<h1>Encrypting Syslog Traffic with TLS (SSL)</h1>
-<p><small><i>Written by <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/en/people/rainer-gerhards.php">Rainer
-Gerhards</a> (2008-07-03)</i></small></p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="rsyslog_secure_tls.html">Overview</a>
-<li><a href="tls_cert_scenario.html">Sample Scenario</a>
-<li><a href="tls_cert_ca.html">Setting up the CA</a>
-<li><a href="tls_cert_machine.html">Generating Machine Certificates</a>
-<li><a href="tls_cert_server.html">Setting up the Central Server</a>
-<li><a href="tls_cert_client.html">Setting up syslog Clients</a>
-<li><a href="tls_cert_udp_relay.html">Setting up the UDP syslog relay</a>
-<li><a href="tls_cert_summary.html">Wrapping it all up</a>
-</ul>
-
-<h3>Setting up the UDP syslog relay</h3>
-<p>In this step, we configure the UDP relay ada.example.net.
-As a reminder, that machine relays messages from a local router, which only
-supports UDP syslog, to the central syslog server. The router does not talk
-directly to it, because we would like to have TLS protection for its sensitve
-logs. If the router and the syslog relay are on a sufficiently secure private
-network, this setup can be considered reasonable secure. In any case, it is the
-best alternative among the possible configuration scenarios.
-<span style="float: left">
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-</span>
-<p><center><img src="tls_cert_100.jpg"></center>
-<p>Steps to do:
-<ul>
-<li>make sure you have a functional CA (<a href="tls_cert_ca.html">Setting up the CA</a>)
-<li>generate a machine certificate for ada.example.net (follow instructions in
- <a href="tls_cert_machine.html">Generating Machine Certificates</a>)
-<li>make sure you copy over ca.pem, machine-key.pem ad machine-cert.pem to the client.
-Ensure that no user except root can access them (<b>even read permissions are really bad</b>).
-<li>configure the client so that it checks the server identity and sends messages only
-if the server identity is known.
-</ul>
-<p>These were essentially the same steps as for any
-<a href="tls_cert_client.html">TLS syslog client</a>. We now need to add the
-capability to forward the router logs:
-<ul>
-<li>make sure that the firewall rules permit message recpetion on UDP port 514 (if you use
-a non-standard port for UDP syslog, make sure that port number is permitted).
-<li>you may want to limit who can send syslog messages via UDP. A great place to do this
-is inside the firewall, but you can also do it in rsyslog.conf via an $AllowedSender
-directive. We have used one in the sample config below. Please be aware that this is
-a kind of weak authentication, but definitely better than nothing...
-<li>add the UDP input plugin to rsyslog's config and start a UDP listener
-<li>make sure that your forwarding-filter permits to forward messages received
-from the remote router to the server. In our sample scenario, we do not need to
-add anything special, because all messages are forwarded. This includes messages
-received from remote hosts.
-</ul>
-<p><b>At this point, please be reminded once again that your security needs may be quite different from
-what we assume in this tutorial. Evaluate your options based on your security needs.</b>
-<h3>Sample syslog.conf</h3>
-<p>Keep in mind that this rsyslog.conf sends messages via TCP, only. Also, we do not
-show any rules to write local files. Feel free to add them.
-<code><pre>
-# start a UDP listener for the remote router
-$ModLoad imudp # load UDP server plugin
-$AllowedSender UDP, 192.0.2.1 # permit only the router
-$UDPServerRun 514 # listen on default syslog UDP port 514
-
-# make gtls driver the default
-$DefaultNetstreamDriver gtls
-
-# certificate files
-$DefaultNetstreamDriverCAFile /rsyslog/protected/ca.pem
-$DefaultNetstreamDriverCertFile /rsyslog/protected/machine-cert.pem
-$DefaultNetstreamDriverKeyFile /rsyslog/protected/machine-key.pem
-
-$ActionSendStreamDriverAuthMode x509/name
-$ActionSendStreamDriverPermittedPeer central.example.net
-$ActionSendStreamDriverMode 1 # run driver in TLS-only mode
-*.* @@central.example.net:10514 # forward everything to remote server
-</pre></code>
-<p><font color="red"><b>Be sure to safeguard at least the private key (machine-key.pem)!</b>
-If some third party obtains it, you security is broken!</font>
-<h2>Copyright</h2>
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2008 <a href="http://www.adiscon.com/en/people/rainer-gerhards.php">Rainer
-Gerhards</a> and
-<a href="http://www.adiscon.com/en/">Adiscon</a>.</p>
-<p> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
-1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
-with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
-Texts. A copy of the license can be viewed at
-<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html</a>.</p>
-</body></html>