[sip-clf] ASCII Logging

Peter Musgrave <peter.musgrave@magorcorp.com> Sun, 14 November 2010 10:45 UTC

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A couple of questions:

1) Do we want to keep this index pointers for this format (or was that just "index envy" to put the proposal on the same footing as IPFIX?)

2) If a field cannot be parsed a log entry would still be useful (src/dst should always be present). What should be logged for a field which failed to parse? "X" ?

3) (Admittedly an odd case). If a tag (or other field) is literally "-" then it will be interpreted as missing. (Likewise if "X" from above is adopted). Do we need to do an escape sequence for a literal "-" or "X" ??

Peter Musgrave