Re: [IPFIX] ipfix mib export and context information

[Benoit Claise <[e-mail]>]

Juergen,

Good summary.
Basically, I would agree that there is no strong use cases right now
So I would like to the draft to the solution a) and b.1) from your 
initial email.

Regards, Benoit.
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 12:29:15PM +0200, Benoit Claise wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Let me ask the question differently.
>> Do you see a use case for the export, within a single flow record,
>> of MIB variables from different SNMP contexts?
> Depends on the definition of "flow". As long as we keep the definition
> found in RFC 3917 section 2.1, the likelihood of exporting MIB
> variables from different SNMP context for a single flow record is
> likely diminishing small.
>
> That said, I think the main use case for MIB variable export via IPFIX
> seems to be related to a much more liberal definition of a "flow",
> that is, one uses IPFIX to simply stream MIB variables towards a
> collector instead of polling them, likely independent of any traffic
> flows. In such a scenario, the likelihood to want different SNMP
> contexts in a single flow record might increase, but it might still be
> acceptable to have a limitation that a single flow record can only
> carry data from a single context (since SNMP has kind of the same
> restriction - a PDU is always bound to a specific context).
>
> So I guess my answer is "no", I do not see a strong use case for
> having data from different contexts in a single flow record (but
> different flow records should be able to carry data from different
> SNMP contexts).
>
> /js
>