[SNMP4J] Re: Processing Traps

[Frank Fock]

Hello Stefan,

Traps are buffered by the UDP buffer, which is not very big
by default. You can use the MultiThreadedMessageDispatcher
to use parallel processing. A buffer could make sense too.

Best regards,
Frank

Stefan M wrote:
> Hello Frank,
> 
> I have a second question about receiving traps: Given that I have a lot 
> of snmp agents that are able to send traps, my program must be able to 
> handle (NumberOfAgents * X) traps. On the other hand, the code to handle 
> an incoming trap is quite long and takes time to execute.
> 
> My question here is: Does it make sense to store the incoming traps in a 
> queue or is this already done by snmp4j, a buffer of my network card or 
> somewhere else? In other words: When the 
> processPdu(CommandResponderEvent event) function is executed 
> synchronously it can not react on other incomming PDUs right? If there 
> is no such buffer, traps are lost.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Stefan

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