I am exactly of Baszi's view - and this is what -15 does. The root cause of this discussion was that there were suggestions to add a 4 (or was it 5) octect decimal message length counter to the header, which would have imposed a limit.
No matter what max limit we will set, IMHO no clearly thinking implementor will obey it, except by default. The admin decides. But being simplex, we need a guaranteed minimum. Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Balazs Scheidler > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:23 AM > To: Chris Lonvick > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Syslog] #2, max message size - Need to resolve this > > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:07 -0800, Chris Lonvick wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > We need to resolve this one. I've heard from Rainer and a very few > > others. I'd like to hear from more people on this. Choose one: > > > > __ The maximum message length needs to be defined in > syslog-protocol. > > > > > > __ The maximum message length should be defined in the transport > > documents. > > > > > > __ I have a different idea.... > > > > Is "I don't care" a valid option? I think the setting the maximum > message size is up to the administrator. If we need to define > a minimum > to be supported by all implementations, fine. Otherwise the > maximum size > depends greatly on the environment where syslog is deployed. > > As I see the maximum size needs to be specified only if we > are to define > a data type that represents the size of the message, but I can't see > anything like this. (like defining 4 decimal digits, or 32 > bit unsigned > integer) > > -- > Bazsi > > > _______________________________________________ > Syslog mailing list > [email protected] > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog > _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
