Re: portDown/portUp

[James Reeves <[e-mail]>]

         Reply to:   RE>portDown/portUp
>>From: Anil Rijsinghani
>   Hi,.
>
>    In FDDI concentrators, when a port goes down you can't send a
>    linkDown trap.  As a result there's no asynchronous notification
>    to the manager of a breakdown in the network.  Multiple customers
>    have reported that polling is not timely enough in this case,
>    and we have ended up defining enterprise-specific traps for
>    this purpose.

We also have enterprise specific traps. I believe the right thing to pursue 
is to develop a more general trap scheme that can handle ring level events. 
A port going down also causes a logical topology change. This information is as
useful,
or more useful than knowing that a port has isolated. However, the traps
should not be sent by every station on the ring. There are too many traps that
could be
generated by a large FDDI concentrator which would bog down intermediate links
with usually redundent information.

Is there any interest in pursuing a proxy based approach to this problem?

James Reeves
SynOptics Communications