Re: Throttling needed for MIB notifications of associations going up/down ?

On Thu, 2007-22-02 at 17:17 +0100, Robert Haas wrote:
> All,
> The MIB doctor asked if we should throttle the generation of MIB 
> notifications for associations going up/down.
> 
>
> So far I've assumed that the CE protects itself against a DoS attack by 
> throttling the rate at which it accepts associations. As a consequence, 
> I don't believe throttling of MIB notifications is needed.
> 
> What's your opinion?
> 

My 2c Canadian:
It doesnt seem necessary to me. 
The FE associations will be very very infrequent events - a frequency
which i wouldnt bother throtling. 
I also cant imagine being DoSed by FEs wishing to join ; but if we were
being DoSed, then the mechanisms used for DoS prevention should suffice.


cheers,
jamal