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Re: [IPFIX] IPFIX export: SNMP versus physical Interface

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Tue, 26 July 2011 15:02 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:54:52AM -0400, Andrew Feren wrote:

> From a collection and reporting perspective the important difference for
> me in these two sets of definitions isn't physical vs maybe not
> physical, but that "The value matches the value of managed object
> 'ifIndex' as defined in RFC 2863 ..." and everything that implies for
> elements 10/14.
> 
> So I agree with Paul's approach.  There are situations where either
> 10/14 or 252/253 could be used, but if RFC 2863 applies to your
> interface use 10/14.
> 
> Maybe rather than replacing "IP interface" with "logical or virtual
> interface" it could just be "interface" or "network interface".
> 
> On a related not I'm not sure the references for 252/253 need to refer
> readers to "[RFC2863] for the definition of the ifIndex object."

RFC2863 always applies to an ifIndex object. I fail to see the
problem. I find the definitions of these elements rather clear as they
are written.

/js

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