Hi Karl, please follow me in-line:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 02:44:59PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > What do you think about re-creating the server's sockets on the > client and then just using the regular pmacct on the client? > This would mean having another daemon on the client that would > feed data over the network to the client sockets. On the server > side this would be taken care of by pmacctd itself. I see it kind of over-engineered approach: the satellites would be useful if they could do something more than just forwarding things back and forth (ie. caching? But this is something you don't want in our scenario). Otherwise, why not implementing sockets straight in the client? Plus, it means more work for you. > I have no plans for any sort of security. (I plan to use a separate > physically secure network.) I see nothing that would preclude adding > in any sort of security once the basics are in place. Would > the lack of any sort of security prevent you from merging the code? No. Good documentation can do it, just explain it is meant to work in secure or management networks. Suggesting OpenVPN or whatever is fine. > I also have a licensing question. You have pmacct licensed > under the GPL v2 only. If I write an entirely new program > (e.g., the daemon that runs on the client box) I > would prefer GPL v3 or later. Naturally any code I submit > for inclusion into your existing programs I will submit > under the license of your choice. Thoughts? Not really. I'm not a super-expert of licensing matters; but will fall-back to my personal "licensing consultant" and will let you know. > P.S. Did you notice the 2 strcpy related patches I sent > to the list? I don't want them to get lost. Nothing (hopefully) gets lost. I have 3 patches from you to get through. One more thing: as it's now matter of discussing implementation details and we seem to be the only two involved in it, what do you think of continue the discussion privately? With only relevant updates of general interest posted to the list? Cheers, Paolo _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
