Re: More comments

"David L. Arneson (arneson@ctron.com)" <arneson@yeti.ctron.com> Tue, 18 August 1992 19:21 UTC

Return-Path: <owner-chassismib>
Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (5.61++/2.8s-UTK) id AA04873; Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:21:57 -0400
Received: from nic.near.net by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (5.61++/2.8s-UTK) id AA04869; Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:21:52 -0400
Received: from [134.141.2.2] by nic.near.net id aa08072; 18 Aug 92 15:21 EDT
Received: from yeti.ctron by ctron.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26312; Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:19:39 EDT
Received: by yeti.ctron (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12174; Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:21:25 EDT
Message-Id: <9208181921.AA12174@yeti.ctron>
To: Niels Ole Brunsgaard <nob@sony.dowtyns.dk>
Cc: chassismib@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: More comments
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Aug 92 19:04:58 BST." <9208181805.AA18286@sony.dowtyns.dk>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:21:24 -0400
From: "David L. Arneson (arneson@ctron.com)" <arneson@yeti.ctron.com>


>
>>A number of vendors have boxes which may support multiple logical
>>bridges, with controllers associated with a specific bridge entity
>>possibly spanning multiple cards.  These bridge entities are purely
>>logical yet each is addressable with regard to management traffic.
>>Each entity maintains its own instance of MIB-II.
>
>>John
>
>I'm still confused. I read
>
>--> Each entity maintains its own instance of MIB-II. <--
>
>as if there is one instance of MIB II for each entity. Should I
>instead read: 
>
>Each logical bridge maintains its own instance of MIB-II. But
>in the chasEntityTable, they're all part of the same instance.
>
>	Niels Ole
This should be read as each entity maintains its own instance of MIB II.

/David Arneson