MAXIMUN SIZE of a Display String (3)

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Hi all !!!

Thanks a lot for your answer, Robert.

I need somebody to clarify a question to me. Robert said "Using informs 
instead of traps help, as the agent will resend a few times if confirmation 
is not received". OK, now a new doubt has aroused in me, this is: the 
resending is automaticly made by the agent or should I programme the agent 
to do it?

Thanks again.

Gemma

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Story" <rs...@fr...>
To: "Gemma Sánchez" <ge...@us...>
Cc: <net...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: MAXIMUN SIZE of a Display String (2)

> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:42:57 +0200 Gemma wrote:
> GS> I need to send these display strings (that I am going to define of 
> 1492 B,
> GS> like you have advised me) by a TRAP. Could a TRAP PDU carry several of
> GS> these Display Strings or it would be to much information?
>
> A UDP PDU can be 64 kB, but that will certainly get fragmented as it 
> travels
> over the network. The receiving manager may not support packets that large
> either. UDP is not a reliable protocol, so adding packet fragmentation on 
> top
> of that might be asking for trouble.
>
> Using informs instead of traps help, as the agent will resend a few times 
> if
> confirmation is not received.
>
> GS> would be better to send just one of then by the TRAP and make the 
> manager
> GS> that receive the TRAP to get the others?
>
> If the data is important, then a smaller inform to the manager, indicating 
> it
> needs to read the data, would be safer. Then the manager could decide how 
> hard
> to try and retrieve the data..
>
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> You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different. 