Re: proposed row ops requirements

[Lauren Heintz <lheintz@cisco.com>]

I would think being "fast" is just one possible aspect of making
something competitive with something else.  Bundled s/w components
are not not always the best-of-breed, idividually, but when you tie
things together in certain ways, you suddenly have overall advantages.

Perhaps a comprehensive feature set that also offers efficiency
advantages
(even if not quite as FAST as some other single-purpose protocols) might
be competive. Therefore, I would suggest somthing like:

"SNMP MUST be able to effectively compete with such protocols
as FTP and/or CLI in retrieving bulk data.  This SHOULD be measured
in terms of end-to-end response time, network loading, ease of use,
and ease of implementation."

Lauren


Mark Ellison wrote:
> 
> Nit alert...
> 
> (a) Make SNMP efficient so that retrieving complete tables or portions
> 
>     of potentially large tables is aproximately as fast as retrieving
> the
>     same information via other channels (e.g. FTP or CLI).
> 
> I think the goal for performance should be of the same order, with a
> negligable or small constant.
> Setting the bar for SNMP to perform as fast or faster seems
> unreasonable as a goal.
> 
> \\Mark
> 
> Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> Sharon Chisholm writes:
> >
> > Sharon> My problem with the way to (a) is written, is that I don't
> > Sharon> usually want the entire table - I only want some of the
> > Sharon> columns.  If we focus on efficiency for getting the entire
> > Sharon> table, then we may not actually gain anything.  If I get
> > Sharon> something 4 times more efficient, but I have to retrieve 4
> > Sharon> times the information to use the feature, then I'm exactly
> > Sharon> where I started.
> >
> > So what about this:
> >
> > (a) Make SNMP efficient so that retrieving complete tables or
> > portions
> >     of potentially large tables is at least as fast as retrieving
> > the
> >     same information via other channels (e.g. FTP or CLI).
> >
> > /js
> >
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