Re: 6MAN WG Last Call - draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-mibs-obsolete

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Thu, 10 December 2015 16:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: 6MAN WG Last Call - draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-mibs-obsolete
To: Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net>, ipv6@ietf.org
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From: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
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Brian,

On 12/07/2015 11:59 AM, Brian Haberman wrote:
> Hi Fernando,
>      This was mentioned before... MIBs are different in that each
> variable in the MIB contains a STATUS field that needs to be updated in
> order to effectively inform network management software that it is
> obsolete. In other words, the document status has no bearing on how the
> network management software handles the MIB variables.

Ok. I can take a look at the document if that helps. Please do let me know.

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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