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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:54:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Christopher Lonvick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Darren New <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Any chance for a Simple Reliable Syslog Protocol?

Hi Darren,

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Darren New wrote:

> Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > My reasoning is:
> > * solve possible TCP interop problems with current implementations
> > * to provide a way to send reliable messages for small edge devices which
> >   probably will never implement SCTP nor BEEP (DSL routers for instance)
>
> Well, during the early days, I tried to push for a better timestamp and
> it was considered a modification to the payload. Of course, the cooked
> mode does a better job of carrying the timestamp, but that's admittedly
> a lot more overhead. However, I'm not the authoratative answer on that.
> :-)

Yup.  I appreciate your patience.  The idea was *supposed* to be that
syslog-sign would get the actual syslog format (the "new & improved
version") with an appropriate TIMESTAMP rather than 3164.  ..but, we work
with what we have and we'll continue to work on syslog-sign.  Hopefully
this means that a rev of 3195 will allow for this timestamp.

Switching gears a bit, do you have any thoughts on the proposal from Frank
O'Dwyer to include something along the lines of "MAY accept other
profiles"?

Thanks,
Chris




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