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 :) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
