RE: binary fields in syslog

2004-04-29 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Anton & all: comments to just to those things that I think I need to comment on - the others are snipped out (basically agreement from my side). > > > > - esay human interaction - not just reading but also (telnet) > > > > crafting messages > > > > (I couldn't envision troubleshooting SMTP conf

RE: binary fields in syslog

2004-04-23 Thread Anton Okmianski
Rainer & all: Let me comment on something... > > > - esay human interaction - not just reading but also (telnet) > > > crafting messages > > > (I couldn't envision troubleshooting SMTP configs without > > > the ability to > > > telnet SMTP commands) This is analogy is not quite kosher IMO.

RE: binary fields in syslog

2004-04-23 Thread Harrington, David
Hi You might want to read RFC3535, the Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop and draft-jones-opsec-05.txt. The focus of the workshop was largely on configuration but many of the observations would also apply to a protocol like syslog. In particular during the workshop, in the opse

RE: binary fields in syslog

2004-04-23 Thread Rainer Gerhards
ore we get more comments from others ;) Rainer > -Original Message- > From: Anton Okmianski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 5:31 PM > To: Rainer Gerhards; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: binary fields in syslog > > Rainer & all: > &g

RE: binary fields in syslog

2004-04-23 Thread Anton Okmianski
Rainer & all: I see your concerns, but I don't think -protocol and -transport have to either both do a complete binary or neither. For one, you can think of them as protocols which operate at different layers of the OSI model. Keep in mind that we already do "binary" in -protocol because we suppo