Clarify reusing UDP ports feature

g41797 · Nov 2, 2023 · 72933ff · 72933ff
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@@ -172,23 +172,19 @@ type SyslogConfiguration struct {
 	ROOT_CA_PATH     string
 }
 ```
+
+### Experimental feature
 For os with support of **SO_REUSEPORT** socket option, sidecar opens simultaneously
-8 UDP ports: 
+8 UDP ports. You can use netstat command to see the list:
 ```sh
-sudo netstat --tcp --udp --listening --programs --numeric|grep 5141
-tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5141          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      63457/./syslog-e2e  
-udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5141          0.0.0.0:*                           63457/./syslog-e2e  
-udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5141          0.0.0.0:*                           63457/./syslog-e2e  
-udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5141          0.0.0.0:*                           63457/./syslog-e2e  
-udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5141          0.0.0.0:*                           63457/./syslog-e2e  
-udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5141          0.0.0.0:*                           63457/./syslog-e2e  
-udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5141          0.0.0.0:*                           63457/./syslog-e2e  
-udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5141          0.0.0.0:*                           63457/./syslog-e2e  
-udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:5141          0.0.0.0:*                           63457/./syslog-e2e 
+sudo netstat  --udp --listening --programs --numeric|grep 5141
 ```
-
 [it is intended to improve the performance of multithreaded network server applications running on top of multicore systems](https://lwn.net/Articles/542629/) and decrease number of dropped UDP messages (see [syslog udp message loss](https://axoflow.com/syslog-over-udp-message-loss-1/#))
 
+_*Because this feature is experimental*_:
+- it is not configurable
+- may be removed in the near future 
+
 
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