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Classes:
  - Networking for Cybersecurity
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# Visual Syslog
Visual Syslog Server for Windows is a free open source program to receive and view syslog messages.

Unfortunately this software is windows-only. 

It does run in Wine/Bottles on linux but due to permissions you can't use low numbered ports (port 1024 and lower), and the default is 514. You can change the used port in the software, but the routers we used in this class would not let you change the port they were sending to. If that isn't an issue for you, see the [Wine Document](../Tools/Wine.md).

Otherwise you will just have to run this inside a [Windows VM](../Recommendations/GeneralRecommendations.md#windows-virtual-machine) and either pass-through your USB Ethernet Adapter, run the VM's network device in bridged mode, or forward port 514. The first option being the simplest by far. 
