Re: Community strings/IP Addr

gallagher@quiver.enet.dec.com Tue, 21 July 1992 15:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: Community strings/IP Addr


>Since we are moving in the direction of party based SNMP and there will
>be a limited number of implementations of the MIB using community
>based SNMP.  I vote to remove the community string and the IP address
>from the chasEntityTable as Keith suggested.
>
>Any complaints/ comments from anybody else?
>

I agree that Parties are the future.  We can't be sure just how far out
in the future though.  Supporting both the Community/IP and Party 
approaches provides a good migration path.

I vote for retaining the Community/IP approach and easing into Party
based S[N]MP.
							-Shawn