From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:45:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:45:12 -0400 Received: from air-1.osdlab.org ([65.201.151.5]:61458 "EHLO osdlab.pdx.osdl.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:44:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3BB77591.C1349C09@osdlab.org> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 12:42:09 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-20mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mingo@elte.hu CC: 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.) > > does it make more sense now? :) Thanks for the definitions. I can work with them, although I think that there's much room for improvement... ~Randy