New project announce: NSCA2

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

I fully agree with you, but could you please call it a name that
wouldn't cause confusion?

If you insist on using NSCA2, please implement a compatibility layer :)

Rui

Ter, 2009-08-25 às 21:36 +0200, Jose Luis Martinez escreveu:
> D. Emmanuel Feinsmith escribió:
> > Out of curiosity, based on the changes in your description, why not  
> > submit these changes as a patch?
> 
>   - Perl is my "native" language, and I can program faster than in C, 
> with less errors, and less restrictions.
> 
>   - The base class for the server is Net::Server that provides for "free":
>     - configuration file management
>     - different process models: Forked, Preforked, Single, etc (that 
> right now nsca would have to handle by itself)
>     - Handling of SIGHUP to reload config
>     - just see: 
> http://search.cpan.org/~rhandom/Net-Server-0.97/lib/Net/Server.pod
>   - I hope Perl will let us prototype more functionalities with less pain
> 
> note: All of this is not because of Perl itself. I'm sure Python and 
> other languages can handle all of this as easily (I don't want to start 
> a "best language" flame).
> 
>   - if you extend nsca, you have to be backwards compatible, and carry 
> some design decisions that would probably be hard to avoid or make the 
> code nasty:
>     - when an nsca client connects, the server sends an initial packet, 
> with the timestamp the client will send back and the IV to initialize 
> encription. This forces one round trip of communication, because the 
> client has to wait for the server. NSCA2 aviods this by:
>       - using the timestamp from the client
>       - initializing the IV at the client, and sending the result with 
> the IV to the server.
>       - the client just speaks to the server and closes the connection
>   - I consider that reengineering from time to time is not all that bad :)
> 
> Finally, I understand some of these features have been long awaited, but 
> no one has developed them (the last changelog entries for NSCA are from 
> 03/jul/2007, and the last feature is from 06/Apr/2006), so I've had to 
> scratch my own itch the way I deemed better, and thought that making it 
> open to the community would be more productive ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jose Luis Martinez
> jlmartinez at capside.com
> 
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