NCP statistics (RFC0388)
Original Publication Date: 1972-Aug-23
Included in the Prior Art Database: 2001-Jul-11
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Abstract
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:
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:
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).
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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
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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
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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, ...