diff --git a/lib/subdir.am b/lib/subdir.am
index db11def74197..c621ad06584e 100644
--- a/lib/subdir.am
+++ b/lib/subdir.am
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ lib_libfrr_la_SOURCES = \
 	lib/zlog_5424.c \
 	lib/zlog_5424_cli.c \
 	lib/zlog_live.c \
+	lib/zlog_recirculate.c \
 	lib/zlog_targets.c \
 	lib/printf/printf-pos.c \
 	lib/printf/vfprintf.c \
@@ -329,6 +330,7 @@ pkginclude_HEADERS += \
 	lib/zlog.h \
 	lib/zlog_5424.h \
 	lib/zlog_live.h \
+	lib/zlog_recirculate.h \
 	lib/zlog_targets.h \
 	lib/pbr.h \
 	lib/tc.h \
diff --git a/lib/zlog.c b/lib/zlog.c
index 8734fd55af3e..ffca5726095b 100644
--- a/lib/zlog.c
+++ b/lib/zlog.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 #include "printfrr.h"
 #include "frrcu.h"
 #include "zlog.h"
+#include "zlog_live.h"
 #include "libfrr_trace.h"
 #include "frrevent.h"
 
@@ -109,6 +110,9 @@ struct zlog_msg {
 	size_t textlen;
 	size_t hdrlen;
 
+	/* for relayed log messages ONLY (cf. zlog_recirculate_live_msg) */
+	intmax_t pid, tid;
+
 	/* This is always ISO8601 with sub-second precision 9 here, it's
 	 * converted for callers as needed.  ts_dot points to the "."
 	 * separating sub-seconds.  ts_zonetail is "Z" or "+00:00" for the
@@ -357,6 +361,16 @@ void zlog_msg_pid(struct zlog_msg *msg, intmax_t *pid, intmax_t *tid)
 {
 #ifndef __OpenBSD__
 	static thread_local intmax_t cached_pid = -1;
+#endif
+
+	/* recirculated messages */
+	if (msg->pid) {
+		*pid = msg->pid;
+		*tid = msg->tid;
+		return;
+	}
+
+#ifndef __OpenBSD__
 	if (cached_pid != -1)
 		*pid = cached_pid;
 	else
@@ -507,6 +521,89 @@ static void vzlog_tls(struct zlog_tls *zlog_tls, const struct xref_logmsg *xref,
 		XFREE(MTYPE_LOG_MESSAGE, msg->text);
 }
 
+/* reinject log message received by zlog_recirculate_recv().  As of writing,
+ * only used in the ldpd parent process to proxy messages from lde/ldpe
+ * subprocesses.
+ */
+void zlog_recirculate_live_msg(uint8_t *data, size_t len)
+{
+	struct zlog_target *zt;
+	struct zlog_msg stackmsg = {}, *msg = &stackmsg;
+	struct zlog_live_hdr *hdr;
+	struct xrefdata *xrefdata, ref = {};
+
+	if (len < sizeof(*hdr))
+		return;
+
+	hdr = (struct zlog_live_hdr *)data;
+	if (hdr->hdrlen < sizeof(*hdr))
+		return;
+	data += hdr->hdrlen;
+	len -= sizeof(*hdr);
+
+	msg->ts.tv_sec = hdr->ts_sec;
+	msg->ts.tv_nsec = hdr->ts_nsec;
+	msg->pid = hdr->pid;
+	msg->tid = hdr->tid;
+	msg->prio = hdr->prio;
+
+	if (hdr->textlen > len)
+		return;
+	msg->textlen = hdr->textlen;
+	msg->hdrlen = hdr->texthdrlen;
+	msg->text = (char *)data;
+
+	/* caller needs to make sure we have a trailing \n\0, it's not
+	 * transmitted on zlog_live
+	 */
+	if (msg->text[msg->textlen] != '\n' ||
+	    msg->text[msg->textlen + 1] != '\0')
+		return;
+
+	static_assert(sizeof(msg->argpos[0]) == sizeof(hdr->argpos[0]),
+		      "in-memory struct doesn't match on-wire variant");
+	msg->n_argpos = MIN(hdr->n_argpos, array_size(msg->argpos));
+	memcpy(msg->argpos, hdr->argpos, msg->n_argpos * sizeof(msg->argpos[0]));
+
+	/* This will only work if we're in the same daemon: we received a log
+	 * message uid and are now doing a lookup in *our* known uids to find
+	 * it.  This works for ldpd because it's the same binary containing the
+	 * same log messages, and ldpd is the only use case right now.
+	 *
+	 * When the uid is not found, the log message uid is lost but the
+	 * message itself is still processed correctly.  If this is needed,
+	 * this can be made to work in two ways:
+	 * (a) synthesize a temporary xref_logmsg from the received data.
+	 *     This is a bit annoying due to lifetimes with per-thread buffers.
+	 * (b) extract and aggregate all log messages.  This already happens
+	 *     with frr.xref but that would need to be fed back in.
+	 */
+	strlcpy(ref.uid, hdr->uid, sizeof(ref.uid));
+	xrefdata = xrefdata_uid_find(&xrefdata_uid, &ref);
+
+	if (xrefdata && xrefdata->xref->type == XREFT_LOGMSG) {
+		struct xref_logmsg *xref_logmsg;
+
+		xref_logmsg = (struct xref_logmsg *)xrefdata->xref;
+		msg->xref = xref_logmsg;
+		msg->fmt = xref_logmsg->fmtstring;
+	} else {
+		/* fake out format string... */
+		msg->fmt = msg->text + hdr->texthdrlen;
+	}
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	frr_each_safe (zlog_targets, &zlog_targets, zt) {
+		if (msg->prio > zt->prio_min)
+			continue;
+		if (!zt->logfn)
+			continue;
+
+		zt->logfn(zt, &msg, 1);
+	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
 static void zlog_backtrace_msg(const struct xref_logmsg *xref, int prio)
 {
 	struct event *tc = pthread_getspecific(thread_current);
diff --git a/lib/zlog.h b/lib/zlog.h
index 27401d51fb13..9d9397995778 100644
--- a/lib/zlog.h
+++ b/lib/zlog.h
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ static inline void zlog_ref(const struct xref_logmsg *xref,
 
 extern void zlog_sigsafe(const char *text, size_t len);
 
+/* recirculate a log message from zlog_live */
+extern void zlog_recirculate_live_msg(uint8_t *data, size_t len);
+
 /* extra priority value to disable a target without deleting it */
 #define ZLOG_DISABLED	(LOG_EMERG-1)
 
diff --git a/lib/zlog_recirculate.c b/lib/zlog_recirculate.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..abc73eeed007
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/zlog_recirculate.c
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2024  David Lamparter, for NetDEF, Inc.
+ */
+
+#include "zebra.h"
+
+#include "log.h"
+#include "frrevent.h"
+
+#include "zlog_recirculate.h"
+
+/* This is only the event loop part;  it's split off from
+ * zlog_recirculate_live_msg since there's an integration boundary;  this
+ * half deals with events, the other half with zlog interna.
+ *
+ * As of writing, this runs in ldpd in the *parent* process and receives log
+ * messages from the lde/ldpe subprocesses.  It is not used anywhere else
+ * (yet?)
+ */
+static void zlog_recirculate_recv(struct event *ev)
+{
+	uint8_t rxbuf[4096];
+	ssize_t n_rd;
+	int fd = EVENT_FD(ev);
+
+	/* see below for -2, "\n\0" are added */
+	n_rd = read(fd, rxbuf, sizeof(rxbuf) - 2);
+	if (n_rd == 0) {
+		/* EOF */
+		close(fd);
+		/* event_add_read not called yet, nothing to cancel */
+		return;
+	}
+	if (n_rd < 0 && (errno != EAGAIN) && (errno != EWOULDBLOCK)) {
+		/* error */
+		zlog_warn("error on log relay socket %d: %m", fd);
+		close(fd);
+		/* event_add_read not called yet, nothing to cancel */
+		return;
+	}
+
+	event_add_read(ev->master, zlog_recirculate_recv, NULL, fd, NULL);
+	if (n_rd < 0)
+		return;
+
+	/* log infrastructure has an implicit \n\0 at the end */
+	rxbuf[n_rd] = '\n';
+	rxbuf[n_rd + 1] = '\0';
+	zlog_recirculate_live_msg(rxbuf, n_rd);
+}
+
+void zlog_recirculate_subscribe(struct event_loop *el, int fd)
+{
+	event_add_read(el, zlog_recirculate_recv, NULL, fd, NULL);
+}
diff --git a/lib/zlog_recirculate.h b/lib/zlog_recirculate.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a2ddb4e172d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/zlog_recirculate.h
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2024  David Lamparter, for NetDEF, Inc.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _FRR_ZLOG_RECIRCULATE_H
+#define _FRR_ZLOG_RECIRCULATE_H
+
+/* fd should be one end of a socketpair() */
+extern void zlog_recirculate_subscribe(struct event_loop *tm, int fd);
+
+#endif