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RE: Size matters was Re: notification charter proposal



I agree w/what you're saying and I wasn't suggesting setting max.
message sizes. Also, just talking about notifications. 
Hector

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org] On
Behalf Of Balazs Lengyel
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 1:22 AM
Cc: netconf@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: Size matters was Re: notification charter proposal

Please dont set a max message size generally for netconf !!!

For me one attractive usage of netconf would be to retrieve the complete
configuration of a node. If we set a mandatory max-size for all netconf
messages (as opposed to setting it
  for notifications only) this usage would become impossible. For big
nodes it is anyone's guess what the size of a full configuration can be.
We have nodes that contain the data of 10 million subscribers.

Balazs Lengyel                       Ericsson Hungary Ltd.

Hector Trevino (htrevino) wrote:
> 
> I agree that this is part of the protocol definition but I see it as 
> outside the scope of the charter definition. I'd assume none of this 
> will be included in the charter.
> 
> 
> I don't think the spec should set a hard limit on the max message
size.
> I agree w/Juergen about not limiting the protocol but rather allowing 
> implementations to advertise their max message sizes (if one is set). 
> It may be better to say something like app layer message segmentation 
> is not allowed. But recommendations/guidelines for max message sizes 
> should be provided in the spec.
> 
> Hector
> 
>     
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-netconf@ops.ietf.org] 
> On Behalf Of Andy Bierman
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:01 PM
> To: Tom Petch
> Cc: netconf@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Size matters was Re: notification charter proposal
> 
> Tom Petch wrote:
> 
> 
>><inline>
>>Tom Petch
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Andy Bierman" <ietf@andybierman.com>
>>To: <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>
>>Cc: "Tom Petch" <nwnetworks@dial.pipex.com>; <netconf@ops.ietf.org>
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:41 PM
>>Subject: Re: notification charter proposal <snip>> >
>> 
>>
>>
>>>That would be fine with me.
>>>I brought up the issue because the problem is obviously worse for 
>>>notifications than RPCs, because the lack of an application layer ACK

>>>(which <rpc-reply> effectively is).
>>>
>>>The reason for setting a minimum is to allow NMS developers to code 
>>>to
> 
> 
>>>some reasonable minimum.  The market will help keep things somewhat 
>>>reasonable, but we could see a range from 1500 to 64K as the minimum.
> 
> 
>>>Is that OK?
>>>
>>>Andy
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>I raised size because there are references appearing on the list 
>>calling for something syslog-like and size has been an issue with 
>>syslog that has not been satisfactorily resolved.  syslog unearthed 
>>two
> 
> 
>>contrasting viewpoints, one that messages should not exceed 2k or even

>>1k, the other that 64k should be supported (for at least one
> 
> application).
> 
>>Netconf is more virgin territory than syslog is but I do believe is 
>>setting a Maximum size, at least to start with; but I do not see this 
>>as anything to do with the charter:-).
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> This is part of protocol syntax and semantics.
> 
> IMO, the best approach is to have the NC peer advertise its 
> max-message-size.  The number should be an PositiveInteger, so that 
> would set a theoretical max-message-size of 4G-1 bytes.
> 
> 
> A separate issue is whether there is a minimum an NC peer can set this

> parameter to, somewhat higher than zero.  I don't see any consensus 
> yet on how much higher to set the minimum.
> 
> 
> Another  important issue:  Can an NC peer (optionally?) send its 
> max-message-size in the <hello> exchange?  This doesn't mean the other

> NC peer has to do anything with the value, it just provides a good 
> guess at the number instead of trying
> various message sizes to see what breaks.   Advertising a
> max-message-size doesn't mean you won't get messages greater than that

> size.
> 
> 
> 
>>Tom Petch
>>
>>
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> 
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