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- Editor's note: These minutes have not been edited.
-
- From: Mike Erlinger <mike@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 1994 22:26:40 -0700
- Subject: toronto minutes
-
- 30th IETF, Toronto
- Minutes of the RMONMIB Working Group
-
- Monday, 25 July 1994
-
- The RMONMIB wg met twice at the Toronto IETF. Due to some scheduling
- conflicts for the formal presentations, the initial meeting focused
- on general issues for the next version of RMON and a status review
- of the current RMON draft.
-
- The charter was discussed. No changes were suggested, but the group
- did note the short period in which a new RMON must be completed.
- It was recommended that the wg hold interm meetings focused on
- various issues to be considered for a new RMON. Also formal
- proposals would be solicited for new features. Possible dates for
- an interm meeting would be forthcoming.
-
- The Monday meeting concluded with a discussion of the current
- RMON draft (June 17, 1994). A last call was held within the wg and
- the draft was forwarded to the AD with a recommendation that the
- draft become a Draft Standard. Members of the NM Area Directorate
- have reviewed the draft and have made suggested changes (textual
- only). As a result of the July interoperability testing some issues
- were raised. For those issues that do actually pertain to RMON
- textual changes will be made at the direction of the NM Area
- Directorate.
-
- Tuesday, 26 July 1994
-
- The Tuesday RMON session was devoted to presentations on various
- topics for the new RMON. Soft copies of these presentations
- are available via anonymous ftp from jarthur.cs.hmc.edu, in the
- pub/rmon/toronto. Hard copy will appear in the proceedings.
-
- Nevil Brownlee presented an overview of the accounting MIB
- and its architecture. He has implemented the MIB on a number
- of platforms (freely available implementation). Rules are
- used to describe the traffic patterns of interest. Nevil has
- some data on performance issues related to agent processing.
-
- Sonia Panchen of HP made a presentation of Statistical Sampling
- for network traffic monitoring. HP has released a product,
- EASE, that demonstrates a practical implementation of
- sampling for traffic monitoring.
-
- Venkat Rangan of HP presented MIB structures to include network
- address information in the RMON structure and to handle variable
- length headers in the filter area. These modifications were
- part of the RMON extensions implemented by HP.
-
- Timon Sloane and Karl Auerbach presented possible MIB extensions
- to allow for a packet generation capability in RMON and possible
- changes to the existing filter mechanism. Karl also described his
- stack machine for filter processing.
-
- Steve Waldbusser presented his list of pressing issues for a new
- RMON: new filter language, network layer host & matrix, protocol
- type distribution, trap destination, serial line configuration,
- issues of static vs. extensible, and repeater/bridge ports.
- Discussion indicated little interest in serial line configuration,
- but the other issues remain of interest to the group.
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