[clug] conditional syslogging

[David Deaves]

To achieve this sort of thing, I normally just configure the desired service though
the normal config files.  Then add a black hole route for a bigger netmask (thus lower
priority). I have mostly done this to support a  proxy.pac  file that has a list of
proxies in order depending on what network I am on, finishing with DIRECT.

route add -net 192.168.0.0/16 reject
  or
ip route add unreachable 192.168.0.0/16

I put these in /etc/rc.local

So when I am on the correct network the specific route will exist allowing connections.
When somewhere else the packets won't leave my laptop, and will get an ICMP net-unreachable
immediately.

This does mean when on a network that has multiple networks that fall under the bigger
net I need to add those extra routes, and not rely on the default route.  I have handled
this by putting my own script in  /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/  it also does useful
things like change my default printer....

If you wanted to do it via dhcp,
You could also do it in a script in  /etc/dhcp/dhclient.d/, but you will need to change
/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-wlp2s0.conf (or equivalent) to ask for the parameter.


> I want to be able to get a laptop to log to a syslog server if it is on a particular network.  Is there any simple way to do this?  I could add s syslog option to DHCP but does anything honour this option?
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