11.06.2015, 21:56, "Florian Forster" <o...@collectd.org>: > Hi Konstantin, > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 03:08:04PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >> Is it a design desition that network plugin supports UDP and >> multicast, but not TCP? > > yes, it allowed us to implement support for multicast, which is not > possible with TCP.
What's wrong with just sending the same packets over TCP connection? > >> I think using TCP would be better option than UDP for transmitting >> data over Internet. Otherwise, collectd would need to mitigate UDP >> packet loss somehow. > > You can work around this with the AMQP plugin, for example. I'd also > like to have a reliable-by-default option, but the idea I have in mind > is not quite there yet … I'm planning to use collectd on embedded systems, and AMQP requires additional dependency. Also, it's not a binary protocol. -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list collectd@verplant.org http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd