Re: MIDCOM-MIB: MaxIdleTime

--On Dienstag, 22. Juni 2004 12:29 Uhr -0400 Melinda Shore 
<[email protected]> wrote:

| 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?

The duration of the binding can be considered in admission control.  PRR 
implements a lifetime parameter that indicates how long the reservation 
itself should be kept alive at the middlebox.  If the middlebox decides 
that this lifetime is too big (or even too small) it can reject it with an 
error message.

  Martin

|
| Thanks,
|
| Melinda
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