Re: RmonMIB implementation problems.

Richard Kooijman <R.Kooijman@et.tudelft.nl> Fri, 16 April 1993 19:19 UTC

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From: Richard Kooijman <R.Kooijman@et.tudelft.nl>
Subject: Re: RmonMIB implementation problems.
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1993, F.PIPA wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My question is: what value should an object have, whose contents can't be
> obtained due to resource limitations? An example: for the Statistics
> and History Groups I must know the number of collisions during packet
> reception. In this mode of operation (packet reception) a Western
> Digital Ethernet card plugged in a PC doesn't provide this information!
> What value should I give to these objects?

We have built an RMON agent on top of the NDIS specification and we had
the same problems. I don't know if it is written down somewhere, but
we left all counters for which we could not retrieve information, plain 0.


Richard.