Re: A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable INDEX clause
Robert Snyder <snyder@cisco.com> Thu, 19 January 1995 19:47 UTC
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Subject: Re: A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable INDEX clause
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jan 95 11:24:51 PST."
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 11:34:57 PST
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From: Robert Snyder <snyder@cisco.com>
The proposal is illegal. You can not add an Index to an existing table. The only way you could do this is to deprecate the existing table and create a new one. > From: jychu@watson.ibm.com (John Y. Chu) > 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? >
- A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable INDEX… John Y. Chu
- Re: A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable I… Paul Traina
- Re: A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable I… Robert Snyder
- Re: A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable I… John Y. Chu
- Re: A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable I… Robert Snyder
- Re: A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable I… Dimitry Haskin
- Re: A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable I… Paul Traina
- Re: A proposed change to BGP-4 MIB bgpPeerTable I… Dennis Ferguson