Re: [BEHAVE] Out of port errors, resource errors in NAT MIB

Simon Perreault <sperreault@jive.com> Tue, 28 October 2014 13:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [BEHAVE] Out of port errors, resource errors in NAT MIB
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Leaving aside the notification question for research, the discussion below
> suggests that the boundary between port exhaustion and address exhaustion
> is somewhat indeterminate. The MIB currently has two counters (showing up
> in various tables, another issue), OutOfPortErrors and ResourceErrors, with
> the latter supposedly picking up address exhaustion. I'd suggest we make
> the first one OutOfAddressPortErrors and thereby eliminate the ambiguity.
> I'd also call these Drops rather than Errors to make the consequences
> clearer.


Works for me!

Thanks,
Simon