Re: Counting Send DE Frames for Frame Relay MIB

[Caralyn Brown <[e-mail]>]

Version 6 is under way.  I have fixed those things that were suggested and
I have grabbed the proposed text from James.  All I have to do now is 
make sure the formatting works and send it out.  

As for the following suggestion, how would a network manager make use of this?
Personally, I would like not to add this, but if there is good reason to add
it and others like it, what the heck.

c

On Mon, 21 August, Alan Bartky ([e-mail]) wrote:

> 
> Fellow Frame Relay Mibbers -
> 
> In reviewing the current draft, I believe that if you are going to
> count frames with DE bits set, you must count them in both 
> directions.  It is usefull to know for transmitted frames the
> proportion of frames that have the DE bit set versus those
> that don't.  I propose the following object be added.
> 
>     frCircuitSentDEs OBJECT-TYPE
>         SYNTAX   Counter32
>         MAX-ACCESS   read-only
>         STATUS   current
>         DESCRIPTION
>            "Number of frames sent to the network in-
>            dicating  that  they  were eligible for discard
>            since the virtual circuit  was  created.   This
>            occurs when the local DTE sets the DE flag, 
>            indicating that during Network congestion situations
>            those frames should be discarded in
>            preference of other frames sent without the
>            DE bit set."
>        REFERENCE
>           "Draft American National  Standard  T1.618-1991,
>           Section 3.3.4"
>       ::= { frCircuitEntry xx } 
> 
> 
> Also it would be good to know what the current status of
> getting the next version (draft 6) stands and when we
> can expect it.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> Alan
> 
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