RE: [midcom] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-midcom-mib-01.txt

[Martin Stiemerling <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

There is now parameter/option to tell the middlebox how it should allocated 
IP addresses/port numbers. This is up to the actual implementation of the 
box and/or the MIDCOM stack.

  Martin

--On Mittwoch, 12. Mai 2004 22:18 Uhr -0400 Medhavi Bhatia 
<[e-mail]> wrote:

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| I have not completely gone through the mib yet, but going through the
| semantics documents and the requirements, I did not see anything which
| points to how the midcom agent can direct the middlebox to use symmetric
| ip/port (ie., the address from which the middle box sends traffic towards
| an endpoint A is the same as the address where traffic is being received
| from A).  None of the signaling protocols (SIP etc) require this, but it
| would be interesting to see if there is any option provided for this.
|
| -Medhavi.
|
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of
| Melinda
|> Shore
|> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 2:21 PM
|> To: [e-mail]
|> Subject: Fwd: [midcom] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-midcom-mib-01.txt
|>
|> This is our final deliverable - the end is in sight.  Please give the
|> draft a careful read and post comments to the mailing list.  WG review
|> is,
|> perhaps, the most important stage in moving documents towards
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|> and this is the time to catch and fix any problems that may lurk in the
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|> Thanks,
|>
|> Melinda
|>
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|> > Subject: [midcom] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-midcom-mib-01.txt
|> >
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|> > This draft is a work item of the Middlebox Communication Working Group
|> > of the IETF.
|> >
|> > 	Title		: Definitions of Managed Objects for Middlebox
|> > 			  Communication
|> > 	Author(s)	: J. Quittek, et al.
|> > 	Filename	: draft-ietf-midcom-mib-01.txt
|> > 	Pages		: 82
|> > 	Date		: 2004-5-11
|> >
|> > This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB)
|> >    for use with network management protocols in the Internet community.
|> >    In particular, it describes a set of managed objects that allow
|> >    configuring middleboxes, such as firewalls and network address
|> >    translators, in order to enable communication across these devices.
|> >    The definitions of managed objects in this documents follow closely
|> >    the MIDCOM semantics defined in RFC XXXX.
|> >
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