Rik van Riel writes: > Owww crap. The majority of web traffic is _from_ the > server _to_ the client. Same for ftp, realaudio, etc... > > In fact, usually the server is the _remote_ machine and > the client is the _local_ machine. Anybody who believes > in having the client remote and the server local should > be shipped off to whereever the server is ;) Let's see, with X, the server is local (at least, it's local to where I've placed my ass) and the client is remote. I usually think of "server" as the box that's running all the time, providing a service to multiple clients. In this case, the netconsole server should always be running, accepting log messages for storage. The clients (which are transitory, otherwise netconsole wouldn't be needed:-), initiate work for the server to do. Face it, Ingo's use of "client" and "server" is contrary to accepted usage. You can't finesse around it. Regards, Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca - : 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
