Re: MIDCOM-MIB: MaxIdleTime

On Monday, June 21, 2004, at 09:34 AM, Martin Stiemerling wrote:
> Policy Reserve Rule (PRR) reserves just an external IP address and 
> port number at NAT, but does not necessarily allocated any NAT 
> binding. So MaxIdleTime is not required in PRR, since in anyway no 
> data can pass the NAT bindings (sessions are not generated at all).

Martin - I have a question about this.  If the PRR is used in some sense
to do admission control (are the resources being requested available?), 
should
the duration of the binding be considered in making an admission control
decision?

Thanks,

Melinda