diff --git a/sysutils/syslog-ng/Portfile b/sysutils/syslog-ng/Portfile
index 8f38b9713fe8e..7039d3be9fa09 100644
--- a/sysutils/syslog-ng/Portfile
+++ b/sysutils/syslog-ng/Portfile
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ depends_lib         port:gettext-runtime \
                     port:pcre
 
 patchfiles          clock_gettime_compat.patch \
-                    MAP_ANONYMOUS.patch
+                    MAP_ANONYMOUS.patch \
+                    80e97634cb75878ee94b23ebf35cebc92481fbfc.patch
 
 startupitem.create      yes
 startupitem.executable  ${prefix}/sbin/syslog-ng
diff --git a/sysutils/syslog-ng/files/80e97634cb75878ee94b23ebf35cebc92481fbfc.patch b/sysutils/syslog-ng/files/80e97634cb75878ee94b23ebf35cebc92481fbfc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ccecc20b6858e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysutils/syslog-ng/files/80e97634cb75878ee94b23ebf35cebc92481fbfc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+From 80e97634cb75878ee94b23ebf35cebc92481fbfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?L=C3=A1szl=C3=B3=20V=C3=A1rady?= <laszlo.varady@anno.io>
+Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:32:17 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] transport-udp: support platforms where PKTINFO is not
+ available
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+For example, older macOS versions.
+
+Signed-off-by: László Várady <laszlo.varady@anno.io>
+---
+ lib/transport/transport-udp-socket.c | 8 ++++++--
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/lib/transport/transport-udp-socket.c b/lib/transport/transport-udp-socket.c
+index 821f20b1ee..2bd9fe2350 100644
+--- lib/transport/transport-udp-socket.c
++++ lib/transport/transport-udp-socket.c
+@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ _extract_dest_ip4_addr_from_cmsg(struct cmsghdr *cmsg, GSockAddr *bind_addr)
+ GSockAddr *
+ _extract_dest_ip4_addr_from_cmsg(struct cmsghdr *cmsg, GSockAddr *bind_addr)
+ {
++#ifdef IP_PKTINFO
+   if (cmsg->cmsg_level == IPPROTO_IP && cmsg->cmsg_type == IP_PKTINFO)
+     {
+       struct sockaddr_in sin;
+@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ _extract_dest_ip4_addr_from_cmsg(struct cmsghdr *cmsg, GSockAddr *bind_addr)
+       sin.sin_addr = inpkt.ipi_addr;
+       return g_sockaddr_new((struct sockaddr *) &sin, sizeof(sin));
+     }
++#endif
+   return NULL;
+ }
+ #endif
+@@ -85,6 +87,7 @@ _extract_dest_ip4_addr_from_cmsg(struct cmsghdr *cmsg, GSockAddr *bind_addr)
+ GSockAddr *
+ _extract_dest_ip6_addr_from_cmsg(struct cmsghdr *cmsg, GSockAddr *bind_addr)
+ {
++#ifdef IPV6_PKTINFO
+   if (cmsg->cmsg_level == IPPROTO_IPV6 && cmsg->cmsg_type == IPV6_PKTINFO)
+     {
+       struct sockaddr_in6 sin6;
+@@ -98,6 +101,7 @@ _extract_dest_ip6_addr_from_cmsg(struct cmsghdr *cmsg, GSockAddr *bind_addr)
+       sin6.sin6_addr = in6pkt.ipi6_addr;
+       return g_sockaddr_new((struct sockaddr *) &sin6, sizeof(sin6));
+     }
++#endif
+   return NULL;
+ }
+ 
+@@ -142,11 +146,11 @@ _setup_fd(LogTransportUDP *self, gint fd)
+     {
+ #if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__)
+       setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IP, IP_RECVDSTADDR, &on, sizeof(on));
+-#else
++#elif defined(IP_PKTINFO)
+       setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IP, IP_PKTINFO, &on, sizeof(on));
+ #endif
+     }
+-#if SYSLOG_NG_ENABLE_IPV6
++#if SYSLOG_NG_ENABLE_IPV6 && defined(IPV6_RECVPKTINFO)
+   else if (self->bind_addr->sa.sa_family == AF_INET6)
+     setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_RECVPKTINFO, &on, sizeof(on));
+ #endif