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- From: paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.management.decmcc
- Subject: DEC & Proteon "finger pointing" re MCC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.090914.44973@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 09:09:14 CST
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- It's "finger pointing" time. DEC doesn't like Proteon's MIB because
- Proteon doesn't provide a "sequence of" and "index" definitions for
- private interface types with Proteon's MIB.
-
- Proteon claims that their MIB conforms to the concise MIB RFC.
-
- Who will actually come to the aid of the customer?
-
- Here's excerpts from each e-mail. First DEC
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- Now to try and understand what is going on we need to look at the
- rs232_exp_mibdef and compare it to the Proteon_mibdef. The RS232
- mib definition uses 'sequence of' and 'index' to get the number of
- interfaces and allow a particular one to be accessed. Looking at the
- Proteon Mib definition, there is no way to accomplish the same type
- of port selection.
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- And from Proteon
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- No comment on the 'via port' business, it is not our concern really.
-
- Specifically, regarding the getting of the 'interface type' I dont see why
- you would ever have to go to the Proteon-MIB anyway.
- In MIB-2, in the 'interfaces group' there are three variables called
- 'ifIndex', 'ifDescr' and 'iftype' that ALL NMS would use.
- The 'ifIndex' would get the index of the interface in question,
- the 'ifDescr' would give a descriptor string of the interface in question,
- and the 'ifType' would give a type-number. So as I see it, the
- problem is solvable.
-
- We dont have or NEED TO have this kind of comprehensive info in the Proteon
- MIB anyway, as it would be redundant.
-
- It is rather presumptious for the vendor of a management
- station to EXPECT things from a private-mib, all that a private-MIB has to
- do is to compile with ASN1-compilers.
-
- And, be it noted, that our private MIB is FULLY CONFORMANT with RFC-1212,
- the 'concise MIB definitions' rfc. Some time ago the Proteon MIB
- had been changed to conform with the concise definitions.
-