A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable INDEX clause

"John Y. Chu" <jychu@watson.ibm.com> Thu, 19 January 1995 19:13 UTC

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From: "John Y. Chu" <jychu@watson.ibm.com>
Message-Id: <9501191838.AA31363@triton.watson.ibm.com>
To: bgp@ans.net
Subject: A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable INDEX clause

Folks,
A change to the BGP-4 MIB definition has been proposed.  The change
is to use an existing field (bgpPeerLocalAddr) as the secondary index
of bgpPeerTable, as shown:


                bgpPeerEntry OBJECT-TYPE
                    SYNTAX     BgpPeerEntry
                    MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
                    STATUS     current
                    DESCRIPTION
                            "Entry containing information about the
                            connection with a BGP peer."
                    INDEX { bgpPeerRemoteAddr,
+                           bgpPeerLocalAddr  }
                    ::= { bgpPeerTable 1 }


The BGP-4 protocol spec allows multiple BGP sessions to be established
with a single peer, and each session is distinguished by its local IP
address.  Thus the change.

Comment?


John