Re: Community strings/IP Addr

Manu Kaycee <kaycee@ctron.com> Wed, 22 July 1992 22:49 UTC

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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:47:59 -0400
From: Manu Kaycee <kaycee@ctron.com>
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To: arneson@ctron.com, chassismib@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Community strings/IP Addr
Cc: kaycee@ctron.com




> 
> 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?
> 
> /David Arneson (arneson@ctron.com)
> 

Since the migration to party-based SNMP would occur over time, and that
community-based SNMP will be with us for a bit, I suggest we maintain the
community string/IP Address combo.



/Manu.