Re: RS-232 Interface Type MIB

[Dave Cullerot <[e-mail]>]

Bob,

Thanks for your quick response.

> don't believe the RS-232 MIB is the right place for it.  The RS-232 MIB is
> used for both character ports and network interfaces, so such an object would
> have to work for both of those, but it wouldn't extend to non-RS-232
> instances.  If there is to be such an object, it should be more central.
> 

I agree, but I thought a change would be more readily accepted by your WG.
Good intentions, wrong reason.

> There's been ongoing talk of a need to revamp the MIB-II Interface group to
> account for logical and physical and stacks thereof, and perhaps to include
> character ports, which become network interfaces when they run SLIP or PPP.
> Such a revamped group might be the right place for the object you suggest.
> 

If you mean ifType being broken into logical and physical, I like the idea --
provided the ACCESS is changed to read-write, so that I may "legally" write 
to that leaf.

> In the meantime, it would have to be in enterprise space, and experience with
> it's position there would be valuable in deciding where it should really be.
> 
> 	Bob
> 

Oh well, enterprise it is.  I'll give you feedback on our experience after
deployment.

Thanks,
	Dave