Re: RAQMON Trap PDU size and report transmission time

Hi -

> From: "Andy Bierman" <[email protected]>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [RMONMIB] RAQMON Trap PDU size and report transmission time
...
> This is per RDS.  A RDS can generate at most 1 RAQMON Trap PDU
> every 2 minutes, regardless of the number of flows (or report
> fragments).  This rate limit does not apply to Inform PDUs,
> just SNMP Trap PDUs over UDP.
...

In light of this constraint, is there any case where mapping to a trap,
rather than an inform, would ever make sense?  Should we just
say that, operationally, configuring a system to send these as traps
is NOT RECOMMENDED, since the congestion avoidance could
cause much information to be lost?

Randy