Also sprach Richard Lorbieski
DSP - 2.0.60 ARC - 4.2.32 NMC - 6.1.17
I'm currently dloading the NMC and ARC managment software. The new 7.07 NMC is large (17 Megs). You think they were releasing browser software :-).
Ooh...another FYI that at least Mike and I ran across. The new NMC code is completely different...pretty much rewritten from scratch is what I understand. This is good and bad. The good is that its written to not be so classful in its IP addressing (though I didn't ever get to check it to make sure it worked correctly, at least if it doesn't, we apparently stand some chance of getting that fixed now). The bad is that they have changed the way they do retrieval of SNMP values apparently. The older code apparently "cached" (maybe pre-fetched? don't know details) values from the cards across the management bus. This new code doesn't do that...meaning snmpwalks are going to be a tad bit slower overall. For values that it doesn't have to grab across the management bus, its *much* faster (values about the NMC itself, and index values basically), but when it has to get data over the management bus, it does bog down a bit more. Supposedly the HiPer NMCs are much better about this, but with the 486 based cards, this can get to be a fairly big problem if you're throwing a lot of SNMP traffic at it. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.