Re: questions on load balancing

Hi Youye,

see my comments below.

Best regards
Michael

On Thursday, Jul 17, 2003, at 15:34 Europe/Berlin, Chen Youye wrote:

> Hello,all,
>
> A freshman on RserPool has some questions:
>
> 1.Why do we need to include the "Registration Life" in the message 
> "REGISTRATION" when PE registers itself to Home NS? The timer to count 
> life time only runs at PE. I cannot find any corresponding timer or 
> other actions to work with the PE's life time at NS. Whether this 
> information is not necessary to Home NS?
>
The NS will delete the entry after the some time. That is what the 
lifetime is for.
The description of this procedure seems to me missing...
> 2. What is the reason that PE must register itself again to Home NS 
> according to the Registration Life time? Force PE to update its 
> loading information?
>
We want to make sure that there is 'up-to-date' information in the 
namespace.
> 3. As described in RFC draft, PE shall actively update its loading 
> information to Home NS when it desires. How does the PU get this 
> updated loading information? Only through NAME-RESOLUTION? Is there 
> any possible to ask Home NS to actively inform the registered PUs so 
> that to reach a more dynamic load balancing?
Only through a name resolution.
>
> 4. There are items named "Pool Element parameter" in the message 
> "NAME_RESOLUTION_RESPONSE". Whether the "Pool Element parameter" is 
> directly copied from the PE "REGISTRATION" message, which means Home 
> NS cannot do any modification on that?
>
Why should that entry be modified? The PE says that it is using this 
transport address and
the NS gives this information to PUs.
> Thank you ver much.
>
> Best regards,
> Youye Chen
>
> _______________________________________________
> rserpool mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rserpool
>