Re: snmp over tcp

Les Mikesell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mike Ayers wrote:
>> From: Dave Shield [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:35 AM
> 
>> 2009/12/3 Les Mikesell <[email protected]>:
>>> And is there some particular reason you'd want to do this [SNMP-over-
>> TCP]?
>>>  Seems like a bad idea if your network is unreliable and not needed
>> if it is.
>>
>> At the risk of aggravating Mike's blood pressure (and/or olfactory
>> receptors),
>> you might like to have a quick look at one of the presentations from
>> the
>> Dublin IETF meeting last summer.
>>
>>    http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/72/slides/opsarea-2.pdf
> 
> 	Thanks for the consideration, but good meaty stuff like this will never upset me.  Wish this kind of thinking had been applied ten years ago.  Nice work, Wes!
> 
> 	If I could ever find some spare time I'd love to do some follow-up research.

I'm too lazy to do the math, but those graphs look fairly predictable 
just from the number of packets and retry times involved - at least 
considering the syn retransmit timing spec and tcp retry backoff.

-- 
    Les Mikesell
     [email protected]

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