RE: [Syslog] RE: Message format

2005-11-23 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Andrew WG, a follow-up to my own posting, just some extra information. When mapping over plain TCP I believe we should limit the total message size to 65507 bytes (to keep it compatible with UDP) and delimit ^^ Anton and other already

RE: [Syslog] RE: Message format

2005-11-23 Thread Moehrke, John \(GE Healthcare\)
To all, The view that syslog must only be used to transport human readable syslog messages is disturbing. Is this the view of the syslog community? If it is then I know that healthcare will take it's security audit message (RFC3881) and build our own transport likely using web services. We will

RE: [Syslog] New direction and proposed charter

2005-11-23 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Glenn, very interesting approach with the timestamp. I think your ideas can be the key to maintaining a lot of backwards compatibility by still retaining new functionality. First some bad news: I am not sure if by BSD syslog you are refering to RFC 3164 or a specific distribution of BSD. I have