Re: RAQMON Trap PDU size and report transmission time

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:48:35PM -0800, Randy Presuhn wrote:

> > 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?

It seems the authors assume "usage of Inform PDUs" implies 
"stop-and-wait" behaviour and they seem to assume that 
"stop-and-wait" with N end devices (N >> 1) does not cause 
congestion in the network.

/js

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