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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: MIB for ntp
- Message-ID: <By4JHo.rD@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Keywords: MIB SNMP
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
- References: <1992Nov20.154239.27827@den.mmc.com> <1emjakINNmcn@ni.umd.edu> <2B0F17FD.22593@news.service.uci.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 15:39:24 GMT
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- In article <1emjakINNmcn@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
- >There are, of course, a number of design decisions to make; one of the
- >more obvious is how to represent 64 bit NTP timestamps in the MIB.
- >Two 32 bit integers? Octet string? Hmm..
-
- That is a good question. The notion of adding a 64-bit entity as
- part of the SNMP v2 (aka SMP) work seems to have been discarded if I
- recall my mailing list traffic correctly.
-
- If such a MIB were read-write, someone would need to look at the
- security implications since NTP already has its own security and SNMP
- has its own. It would be undesirable if a compromised SNMP could be
- used to undermine an uncompromised NTP or vice versa.
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
-