From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:38:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:38:30 -0400 Received: from mailg.telia.com ([194.22.194.26]:12769 "EHLO mailg.telia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:38:19 -0400 Message-ID: <3BB693AC.6E2DB9F4@canit.se> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 05:38:20 +0200 From: Kenneth Johansson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mingo@elte.hu CC: "Randy.Dunlap" , Andreas Dilger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [patch] netconsole-2.4.10-B1 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > sorry :-) definitions of netconsole-terms: > > 'server': the host that is the source of the messages. Ie. the box that > runs the netconsole.o module. It serves log messages to the > client. > > 'client': the host that receives the messages. This box is running the > netconsole-client.c program. > > 'target': the host that gets the messages sent - ie. the client. > > 'target IP address': the IP address of the 'target'. > > 'target ethernet address': the local-net host or first-hop router that > gets the netconsole UDP packets sent. Ie. it > does not necesserily match the MAC address of > the 'target'. > > (i can see where the confusion comes from, 'syslog servers' are ones that > receieve syslogs. It's a backwards term i think. 'netconsole servers' are > the ones that produce the messages.) > Servers is usually the thing waiting for something to be sent to it, the client is the sending part(initiator). this works for web servers , X servers, log servers but strangley not for netconsole where everything is backwards. > > does it make more sense now? :) > Not really :)