{"id":2414,"date":"2022-04-11T21:49:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:49:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:49:50","slug":"ignorance-is-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/homelan\/ignorance-is-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance Is Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the many jobs a Synology <\/a>NAS can do is to serve as a syslog server. <\/a>Most network gear can support sending it’s logs to a syslog server and in doing so, you can have one place to go to review logs on all those devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, what you don’t know can’t hurt you, right? Right?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seriously, the issues I have discovered in just over 12 hours of using Log Center<\/a> are arguably not actually serious, but they are bothersome just because now I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I configured Log Center to collect logs from my pfSense router\/firewall, two Cisco switches and, just for the entertainment value, one of my IP cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activity from the switches is very light. I verified that it would log a port being disconnected and reconnected and other than an hourly DHCP refresh from each switch, they have been pretty quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The camera is also pretty quiet. It mostly shows login and logout activity from both my laptop and the NAS while playing with some settings and silence since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The router, on the other hand, is quite chatty. It also has more granular control over what gets sent to syslog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note that I have unchecked Firewall Events<\/em>. Before doing that, the log was just stupid busy. The firewall blocks a LOT of traffic. I do need to analyze that traffic at some point. Some of the blocked traffic is internal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing that bothers me but probably shouldn’t is the number of DHCP requests from stuff that is obviously online and operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does my camera out by the gate really need to refresh it’s IP every 4 seconds ALL DAY<\/strong>? The camera alone accounts for almost 71% (32,552 out of 46,198) of the log events between midnight and a bit after 11AM when I pulled the log to look at it. Why does a camera that is online and operating have to do that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will figure it out….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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