Re: A comment and question about rendezvous...
Re: A comment and question about rendezvous...
- Subject: Re: A comment and question about rendezvous...
- From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:44:38 -0800
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 12:33 PM, Jiva DeVoe wrote:
Sorry, no FUD here... this is based off of sniffing the traffic myself
and seeing piles of chatty queries...
I might be wrong... which would be great... and which is why I am
asking for comments. :)
Perhaps the question might have been expressed more along the lines of
(in the worst case):
"I'm seeing a lot of chattiness on my network due to Rendezvous -- is
it supposed to work like this?" :-)
I've not seen or heard of a high level of chattiness with Rendezvous,
but, given their aims, I'm sure this is something Apple would like to
track down. A few questions:
(a) At the risk of appearing condescending -- are you sure the traffic
is due to Rendezvous?
(b) How long ago did you install the network, and when did you do the
measurement?
If you recently did a net install of 50 clients and did the measurement
a minute afterward, I could understand a greater level of traffic as
they sort themselves out (note the points about exponential query and
announcement backoff).
(c) Can you trace the packets to any particular application?
(c) ties in with Chris Parker's comment: "Rendezvous shouldn't be used
as a communications protocol, -just- a discovery protocol." Perhaps
there's an application (Apple or third-party) that is abusing the
system?
I'm sorry if I appear harsh about this. It seems that AppleTalk gained
an undeserved reputation for chattiness. It would be unfortunate if
Rendezvous suffered the same fate.
mmalc
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