RFC 996 · HISTORIC · 1987 MON · 14 SEP 2026

Statistics server

By D.L. Mills · Published February 1987 · DOI 10.17487/RFC0996

Overview

RFC 996, “Statistics server”, is a Historic document published in February 1987 by D.L. Mills. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This RFC specifies a standard for the ARPA Internet community. Hosts and gateways on the DARPA Internet that choose to implement a remote statistics monitoring facility may use this protocol to send statistics data upon request to a monitoring center or debugging host.

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