RFC - 3195

Reliable Delivery for syslog

Original:	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3195.txt
Authors:	D. New [Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.], M. Rose [Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.]
Date:	November 2001
Category:	Proposed Standard

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Referred by:	5 RFC
Refers to:	9 RFC

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Status

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

The BSD Syslog Protocol describes a number of service options related to propagating event messages. This memo describes two mappings of the syslog protocol to TCP connections, both useful for reliable delivery of event messages. The first provides a trivial mapping maximizing backward compatibility. The second provides a more complete mapping. Both provide a degree of robustness and security in message delivery that is unavailable to the usual UDP-based syslog protocol, by providing encryption and authentication over a connection-oriented protocol.

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