Subject: Re: David Finnie's suggestion of a new TP to propagate COS tables

From: Dave Finnie <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 07:18:37 +1000

Marcia,

SNMP over SNA sounds like a good idea also. I can't see that it would
actually be a huge saving in coding effort, as you suggested, but I
don't think it would be a burden, either.

Please excuse my ignorance on the SNMP front: Would we be able to
design a method to propagate the COS tables to all of the nodes in
an APPN network automatically, or would the originator of the update
need to farm it out individually ? The multi-cast architecture suggested
by Dave Bryant seemed to fit this bill quite nicely.

And obviously using SNMP would require SNMP code to be in every node
that wanted to receive or send COS updates. I'm not necessarily saying
this is a bad thing, but our product does not currently include this,
so we would be forced to implement this function. Does anyone else have
similar concerns ?

Dave