Re: [Etherboot-developers] Error reporting...

[Peter L. <P.L...@sy...>]

> Just a thought from a non-network expert, but what about using syslog?
> It seems like it would be an easy packet to put together and send, and
> a syslog daemon would be easier to set up than SNMP.

*Clients* should be as simple as possible. It's evil to transfer server
complexity onto clients (and here we are dealing with error conditions -
stuff is going wrong anyway). So if snmp is easier to implement in a
restricted client environment, I'm happy to think for a few minutes more
about setting up snmpd.

snmp also wins as common network monitor s/w (OpenView, Tivoli) uses it,
regardless of platform. syslog is unixish.