perfsonar development work

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

Mukul Sabharwal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> RRDMA currently returns xml responses, with metaX and metaX+1 to club 
> together a particular interface's in/out data.
>
> For example, meta11 and meta12 could be in/out data for ifName:Vlan5 on 
> bnl-mr1.es.net.
>
> Is it reasonable to assume that in data is odd numbered metadata and out 
> is even for a particular interface? Or should there be another mechanism 
> to uniquely identify data to particular interface?

No, it is not reasonable. You have to look at the parameters in the metadata 
directly. There is no reason metadata id's even have to use integers as part of 
the id. So assuming they are even or odd is absolutely out of the question.

jeff