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

James Watt <james@ca.newbridge.com> Tue, 16 January 1996 02:19 UTC

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From: James Watt <james@ca.newbridge.com>
Message-Id: <199601160210.VAA19788@thor.ca.newbridge.com>
Subject: Re: Proposed changes to Draft Frame Relay MIB for multiprotocol support.
To: Alan Bartky <alan@xylan.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:10:29 -0500
Cc: james@newbridge.com, cbrown@baynetworks.com, iplpdn@CNRI.Reston.VA.US, alan@xylan.com
In-Reply-To: <9601121649.AA25628@irvine.XYLAN.COM> from "Alan Bartky" at Jan 12, 96 08:49:01 am
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Alan Bartky writes:
+-----------
|I think we want to be specific.  Maybe rewording would help. How about:
|
| --      ifInUnknownProtos  For implementations that
|                          use RFC 1490 Multiprotocol
|                          over Frame Relay, this counts
|                          the number of frames received
|                          but not delivered to an
|                          upper layer due to unknown
|                          or unsupported protocols.
|                          If RFC 1490 Multiprotocol encapsulation
|                          is not used, then this counter
|                          would be always zero(0).
|
|And of course we'll need a reference to RFC 1490 in the
|reference section.
+--------

One dumb question: what happens if some VCs on an interface are using
RFC 1490 and others aren't ?  I'm not sure this would be a too common
occurrence but I couldn't find anywhere that we said the interface
had to be homogenous in encapsulation within the FR frame ?

Having said that, I think the words cited above will work just fine.

Regards,
-james
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