Re: RMON in hardware

Andrew Bierman <abierman@synoptics.com> Tue, 12 April 1994 01:47 UTC

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From: Andrew Bierman <abierman@synoptics.com>
To: mark@csn.org, karl@empirical.com
Subject: Re: RMON in hardware
Cc: snmp@psi.com, rmonmib@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu

>  > 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?
> 
> 		--karl--

Karl,
this question assumes that the two functions are sharing the NIC, PKT SRAM,
and/or the CPU...it is possible (although expensive) that the two
functions are independent of each other--not likely, but possible

--andy;
abierman@synoptics.com