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Re: RMON in hardware

Bhushan Kanekar <bkanekar@micom.com> Tue, 12 April 1994 03:45 UTC

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From: Bhushan Kanekar <bkanekar@micom.com>
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To: mark@csn.org, karl@empirical.com
Subject: Re: RMON in hardware
Cc: snmp@psi.com, rmonmib@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu

> From snmp-forw@lists.psi.com Mon Apr 11 17:42:23 1994
> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 11:25:59 PDT
> To: mark@csn.org
> Subject: Re: RMON in hardware
> From: karl@empirical.com (Karl Auerbach, Empirical Tools and Technologies, 408/457-6302)
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> 
>  > A few months ago, CrossComm announced that it would integrate RMON
>  > capabilities into its line of routers. Has anyone heard of other
>  > hardware vendors that are putting RMON inside their internetworking
>  > devices?
> 
> When there are a zillion packets flying across the net and many have
> to be routed, which does the box drop first?  The routable packets or
> the packets for the RMON engine?
> 
> In other words, when a box has two distinct duties, which does it
> prefer when placed under load?
> 

If it's a Router, it's primary function is Routing, so logic dictates
that it should drop the packets for the RMON engine, first. Being 
manageable or assisting in management is secondary.

bhushan

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