Re: Proposed changes to Draft Frame Relay MIB for multiprotocol support.

["Andrew G. Malis" <[e-mail]>]

Alan,

>Proposed change:
>
>
>     ifInUnknownProtos  Number of unknown or unsupported
>                        upper layer protocol frames received
>                        and discarded.  If only a single
>                        upper layer protocol is present
>                        (i.e. multiprotocol formatting is
>                        not used) then this counter
>                        would be always zero(0).

I like this change.

>Second for the more difficult one.
>...
>Table Entry 1: ifIndex.10, DLCI 40
>Table Entry 2: ifIndex.10, DLCI 41
>Table Entry 3: ifIndex.11, DLCI 40
>Table Entry 4: ifIndex.11, DLCI 41
>Table Entry 5: ifIndex.12, DLCI 41
>Table Entry 6: ifIndex.12, DLCI 42

Sounds like in this case, you're not modeling the FR interface as a
multiaccess interface, but as a collection of virtual point-point
interfaces, one for each DLC.  If you then give each virtual interface
(DLC) its own ifIndex, you can do the mapping in the ifStack table, right?

>P.S. If we decide to add either of these changes we should
>have a references to RFC 1490, FRF.3.1 and T1.617 Annex G
>at the end of the document.

Absolutely.

Andy

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