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Librelp is being officially announced today. There is a web page with some information and the download available at

http://www.librelp.com

Please feel free to use this form with any questions, suggestions, feedback and whatever else you would like to share.

I hope librelp is useful.

Rainer Gerhards

Interesting idea, it seems this is the new liblogging

I'm curious to know what limitations or shortcomings of RFC 3195 you're addressing with this new protocol?

I think I read something about a message size limit, but now I can't find it.

Is it simply because implementing a BEEP stack is too much work?
Was integrating an existing BEEP stack considered, such as Vortex Library?

Thanks,
Skye

I think this covers most: http://blog.gerhards.net/2008/03/relp-r ... tocol.html

The vortex library, in its early ages, was not a reasonable choice. liblogging was first. So if I would go the BEEP way, I'd stick with liblogging. However, why should I do that if nobody else does? After all, I have implemented 3195 some 4 (or 5?) years ago and nobody has ever cared Great waste of time...

Rainer

Oh, and I forgot to mention: I *have* implemented a BEEP stack (liblogging), actually the first implementation on Windows and the first reasonable on *nix (SDSC syslog, now forgotten, was first on Unix). rsyslog supports sending (or was it receiving) messages via 3195...

From that blog post you link, it sounds like the reason to discard 3195 was because "it carries a lot of overhead". Do you have any performance metrics comparing RELP and 3195 (as implemented by librelp and liblogging) to help me choose between the protocols? Performance is important to my application, but then again so is talking to the outside world, so its a toss up. Or are there other shortcomings to the 3195 spec?

It was my understanding as well that liblogging was not a full BEEP stack but rather a "bare bones" implementation to only support what was required for 3195.

Thanks,
Skye

I don't have detailled stats unfortunately and am quite busy with other things right at this time, so I can not elaborate on the topic - sorry. The should be ample material in my blog, not just this posting.

liblogging is not a full BEEP stack, that's right (why should it? ). But after all, the "bare minimum" has turned out to be 90 to 95 percent of what BEEP is

Rainer