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Re: Mib questions

Bob Stewart <rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com> Mon, 14 September 1992 18:55 UTC

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From: Bob Stewart <rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com>
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In-Reply-To: Keith McCloghrie's message of Mon, 14 Sep 92 0:38:24 PDT <9209140738.AA22994@nms.netman>
Subject: Re: Mib questions


Hey, once Keith and I agree, it MUST be right.  :-)}

>However, I don't understand why you would have multiple agents in a 
>chassis implementing the chassis MIB.  A chassis is an entity to be 

Hmmm.  I've been thinking of a "chassis agent" as simply any of a number of
agents in a chassis that happen to implement the Chassis MIB, with no
coordination among them.  It would just come with some software for some of
the denizens of the chassis.  Keith's model seems more deliberate.  I see no
particular problem with either one.

	Bob

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