Re: More comments

johns@ultra.com (John Seligson) Tue, 18 August 1992 16:02 UTC

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From: johns@ultra.com
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To: nob@sony.dowtyns.dk
Subject: Re: More comments
Cc: chassismib@cs.utk.edu


> I'm surprised to hear that there can be multiple instances of MIB II
> on a per entity basis. Could someone give an example of when this might be
> the case ?.

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