<tt>nagios-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 05.08.2008 01:32:36: </tt> <tt>Greetings Ton!</tt> <tt> > We've made a change to NRPE so that it can accept more data while > still being backwards compatible with existing NRPE servers. Can this > be applied to the core code? More details at http://altinity.blogs. > com/dotorg/2008/08/enhancing-nrpe.html I've read the article, but I'm not entirely sure how you handle those</tt> <tt>packets. Does it mean your patch raises the default size of the</tt> <tt>packets to 16k? Right now nrpe allocates its maximum outputbuffer</tt> <tt>and fills it with null bytes if the output is less - which is already</tt> <tt>a pain in my opinion.</tt> <tt>If you'd raise the output buffer from 600 bytes (or whatever it was,</tt> <tt>can't recall it right now) to like 16k, that would spike up network</tt> <tt>traffic tremendously and I'm quite sure that would break quite a few</tt> <tt>setups. We already have someone in the german community who complains</tt> <tt>about the useless ~400 bytes sent over the network ;)</tt> <tt>Regards</tt> <tt> Sascha</tt> -- Sascha Runschke Netzwerk- und Systemmanagement Telefon : +49 (201) 102-1879 Mobil : +49 (173) 5419665 Fax : +49 (201) 102-1102105 GFKL Financial Services AG Vorstand: Dr. Peter Jänsch (Vors.), Jürgen Baltes, Dr. Till Ergenzinger, Dr. Tom Haverkamp Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Georg F. Thoma Sitz: Limbecker Platz 1, 45127 Essen, Amtsgericht Essen, HRB 13522