Re: DECnet MIB question (3) -- adjacency index

Art Berggreen <art@opal.acc.com> Fri, 21 August 1992 19:03 UTC

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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:23:02 -0700
From: Art Berggreen <art@opal.acc.com>
Message-Id: <9208211823.AA17476@opal.acc.com>
To: saperia@tcpjon.ogo.dec.com
Subject: Re: DECnet MIB question (3) -- adjacency index
Cc: deb@tci.bell-atl.com, phiv-mib@pa.dec.com

>
>Hi,  This has gotten a bit confusing for me, so I have extracted form the mib,
>entered changes - Please comment on this directly. 
>
>Is this what John/Art are suggesting:
>
>
>       phivAdjTable OBJECT-TYPE
>           SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF PhivAdjEntry
>           ACCESS not-accessible
>           STATUS mandatory
>           DESCRIPTION
>               "The Adjacency Table."
>           ::= { adjacency 1 }
>
>       phivAdjEntry OBJECT-TYPE
>           SYNTAX PhivAdjEntry
>           ACCESS not-accessible
>           STATUS mandatory
>           DESCRIPTION
>               "There is one entry in the table for each adjacency."
>----->     INDEX  { phivAdjCircuitIndex, phivAdjNodeAddr }
	             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'd go for this, but others seem to prefer something like:
	    INDEX  { phivAdjIndex  }

>           ::= { phivAdjTable 1 }
>
>       PhivAdjEntry ::=
>           SEQUENCE {
>               phivAdjCircuitIndex
>                   INTEGER,
>               phivAdjNodeAddr
>                   PhivAddr
>:
>:lines deleted
>:
>      phivAdjCircuitIndex OBJECT-TYPE
>           SYNTAX INTEGER
>           ACCESS read-only
>           STATUS mandatory
>           DESCRIPTION
>------>        "A unique index value for each known adjacency."

No, from its name, I think this object should be the Circuit Table Index.
If we use a single part, local instance, we need a new object (maybe called
phivAdjIndex) which is unique across all adjacencies.  If so, I'd like to
be able to give it locally meaningful structure, but externally it's just
a unique INTEGER.

>           ::= { phivAdjEntry 1 }
>
>       phivAdjNodeAddr OBJECT-TYPE
>           SYNTAX PhivAddr -- OCTET STRING (SIZE (2))
>           ACCESS read-only
>           STATUS mandatory
>           DESCRIPTION
>               "The address of the adjacent node."
>           ::= { phivAdjEntry 2 }
>
>This still leaves us with no connection to the circuit over which the
>adjacency occurs.  We can either add circuit (as I noted yesturday)  or we can
>redefine phivAdjCircuitIndex to be something else (e.g., the Circuit Table
>index).  If we do the latter are we certain that we have under all
>circumstances created unique indicies to the table?

By definition, Adjacencies are formed with other nodes (defined by node ID)
across a circuit (defined by circuit index).  If the instance reflects that,
it must be unique.  On the other hand, we can use a simple index which is
locally defined and guaranteed unique.

>/jon

Art