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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Michael Erlinger/Micro Technology
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- RLANMIB Minutes
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- This was the first meeting of this Working Group. The activities
- centered on getting to know one another and brainstorming on the concept
- of remote LAN monitoring and associated problems. The following lists
- some of the major discussion topics:
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- o The features of two monitoring boxes, HP LAN Probe and Novell
- LANtern, were presented by members of the audience as
- representative of the marketplace.
- o The concepts of LAN monitoring and packet capture with packet
- analysis (e.g., SNIFFER) were discussed. Packet capture and
- analysis by remote LAN probes seemed to stretch the data transfer
- capabilities of SNMP.
- o The concept of filtering was discussed in great detail. In
- particular, the approaches to filtering by various manufacturers
- and the different approaches to combining filters and traps.
- o Relationships to other IETF Working Groups were discussed and the
- need for close interaction was noted by all.
- o Finally, there was much discussion about remote LAN monitoring and
- SNMP. In particular: do smart agents violate the spirit of SNMP?
- How does a large amount of agent-captured data move to an NMS? and
- how can various probes and NMSs be synchronized within a particular
- LAN?
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- There was no attempt to reach any consensus on these issues, but the
- group did come up with the following action items:
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- 1. The list of attendees would be sent to rlanmib-request for addition
- to the mailing list. Done.
- 2. The group would like to change its name to the Remote LAN
- Management Working Group and make appropriate charter changes.
- Mike Erlinger took on this assignment.
- 3. Steve Waldbusser will attempt to generate a review document on the
- various network probes. He will try to discern the common features
- of these devices.
- 4. Mike Erlinger will attempt to generate a review document on the
- concept of filters as they apply to remote probes/agents.
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- Attendees
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- Scott Bradner sob@harvard.harvard.edu
- Phil Budne phil@shiva.com
- Martin Dubetz dubetz@wugate.wustl.edu
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- Mike Erlinger mike@mti.com
- Michael Fidler ts0026@ohstvma.ircc.ohio-state.edu
- Olafur Gundmundsson ogud@cs.umd.edu
- Ken Jones uunet!konkord!ksj
- Kathy Kerby kkerby@bbn.com
- Jim Kinder jdk@fibercom.com
- Paul Langille quiver::langille@decwrl.dec.com
- Cyndi Mills cmills@bbn.com
- Robert Morgan morgan@jessica.stanford.edu
- Robert Pinna bwp!hpctlb.hp.com
- K.K. Ramakrishnan rama%erlang.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com
- Marshall Rose mrose@psi.com
- Glenn Trewitt trewitt@nsl.dec.com
- Sudhanshu Verma verma@hpindbu.cup.hp.com
- Mark Wood mark1@iw/cs.att.com
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