Re: [Bridge-mib] Draft-ietf-bridge-bridgemib-smiv2 Issues Resolution

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de> Tue, 11 January 2005 22:50 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>
To: David B Harrington <dbharrington@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Bridge-mib] Draft-ietf-bridge-bridgemib-smiv2 Issues Resolution
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:17:28PM -0500, David B Harrington wrote:

> 3) the range has been constrained in the revision. This is probably
> not a problem, but it is a semantic change.

Does someone recall where the introduced size limit for ...AllowedToGoTo
object comes from?  The port index is restricted to 65535 and from that
perspective the upper boundary would be 8K and not 512 bytes (which 
is equivalent to a maximum of 4096 ports). Can some IEEE 802.1 expert
please explain this?

/js

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