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IETF RFC 388

NCP statistics

Last modified on Monday, May 14th, 2001

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Network Working Group                                            V. Cerf
Request for Comments: 388                                       UCLA-NMC
Obsoletes: 323                                            23 August 1972
NIC: 11360
Network Measurement Note #8

                             NCP Statistics

   After a lapse of 5 months since RFC #323 was issued (23 March), I am
   pleased to announce that UCLA-NMC is prepared to gather your NCP
   statistics automatically on a daily basis.  The results will be
   published monthly as Network Measurement notes and as RFC's.  We will
   periodically open a connection on your local socket @241 (decimal),
   expecting you to send the following data in the format shown:

                   <duplicate pages 3-5 of RFC 323 here>

      a. Total bits sent to HOST
      b. Total bits received from HOST
      c. Total messages sent to HOST
      d. Total messages received from HOST and optionally
      e. Average Round Trip delay on send connections to HOST

   The information above should be collected only for standard open
   connections (i.e. those using standard NCP protocol) and not
   measurement links or experimental NCP links, and in particular, not
   traffic on link 0).

   Another optional measurement would be to gather the distribution of
   message types over link 0 over all HOSTS (i.e. not broken down by
   HOST). This will reveal the relative utilization of control messages
   (ALLOC should be very prevalent).

   The data collected for the last 24 hour sample period should be
   available from a process listening on local socket number 241 (10).
















Cerf                                                         PAGE 1 top


RFC 388 NCP Statistics August 1972 16 16 +----------+------------+ word 0 | Day # | Time | +----------+------------+ | | 1 - 365 (6 on leap year) |______ | Time in minutes at which sample was started. Ranges from 0 (midnight) to 1439. 8 8 +--------+------+-------+----------+ word 1 | Source | Byte | N | Format | | Host | Size | | | +--------+------+-------+----------+ | | | |__________ _______| | | | | | number of HOST | Network Host | related entries +---+---+---+---+---+---+ number | in message | | | C | R | B | M | | +---+---+---+---+---+---+ number of bits per | | | | byte in byte statistics ____ ____| | | message | ___| | statistics | | byte control | statistics message distribution | average round-trip time Cerf PAGE 2 top

RFC 388 NCP Statistics August 1972 The remaining words of the message depend on Format byte setting: <-------32---------> / +---------------------+ | | Foreign HOST # | always present |-+---------------------+ | | messages received | if FORMAT bit M set | +---------------------+ | | Bytes received | if FORMAT bit B set N of | +---------------------+ these | | message sent | if FORMAT bit M set entries | +---------------------+ | | Bytes sent | if FORMAT bit B set | +---------------------+ \ | Average delay | if FORMAT bit R set +---------------------+ This is average RFNM delay in milliseconds 8 24 +-------+---------------+ | type | Count | if FORMAT bit C set these +-------+---------------+ are link 0 control message | | | distributions for the +-------+---------------+ sample period, cumulative | | | overall HOSTs. If a type is +-------+---------------+ not present, its count is | | | assumed to be 0. +-------+---------------+ | | | +-------+---------------+ | | | +-------+---------------+ | . | | . . |type | Count | +-------+---------------+ Cerf PAGE 3 top

RFC 388 NCP Statistics August 1972 Thus, the data you send will look roughly like this. +--------------------------------+ word 0 | DAY/TIME | +--------------------------------+ word 1 | CONTROL WORD | +--------------------------------+ | DATA FOR | | DESTINATION | | 1 | +--------------------------------+ | DATA FOR | | DESTINATION | | 2 | +--------------------------------+ . . . +--------------------------------+ | DATA FOR | | DESTINATION | | N | +--------------------------------+ | CONTROL MESSAGE | . DISTRIBUTION | . | . | | | word n +--------------------------------+ On completion of transmission of the last message, and after you receive the RFNM for this last message, close the connection. In the original specification, we said that the data gathering program would ICP to some well-known socket. We believe this to be an unnecessary complication and instead, we will merely open a connection on your 241 (decimal), expecting you to send data as soon as our Allocate command is received by your NCP. Please let me know if this cannot be done (i.e. you need the ICP). If you connect to UCLA-NMC socket 241, we will send you our own 24 hour data. Anyone interested in capturing these statistics is welcome to do so. Cerf PAGE 4 top

RFC 388 NCP Statistics August 1972 Please note that these summarized statistics are for standard local 24 hour period (e.g. local midnight to local midnight). They are not for a sliding 24 hour period ending with the time at which statistics were requested. Also, the data is to be collected only for open connections on links 0, 2-71. The following are participating (others) are heartily invited): UCLA-NMC, DMCG, LL-67. [This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry] [into the online RFC archives by Helene Morin, Via Genie, 12/99] Cerf PAGE 5 top

NCP statistics RFC TOTAL SIZE: 8458 bytes PUBLICATION DATE: Monday, May 14th, 2001 LEGAL RIGHTS: The IETF Trust (see BCP 78)


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