A word on the simplex structure...

• -protocol inherts the simplex communications structure from legacy syslog

  • There is NO two-way communication
  • The sender never knows what happened to the message
  • RFC3195 provides a partial duplex communication, but not end-to-end (other transports may provide this, too)

• Redesigning syslog to be [end-to-end] duplex

  • would require a totally different protocol
  • thus we have decided to stick with the simplex structure (knowing the issues this causes)
  • after all, legacy syslog has prooven fine in reality.