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Re: opstat model questions

elliot@ghost.uunet.ca Mon, 01 May 1995 19:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: opstat model questions
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>As I was saying in an earlier message, if variable-name is actually an
>instance, one could pretty much get rid of the linkname.

Probably a bad idea, since the interface number used by SNMP could change
in the event of router reconfiguration, even if the actual link remains the 
same.  We should keep the link name field as a constant and descriptive
identifier.

elliot

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