Re: Comments on SNMP/SMP Coexistence...

Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us> Wed, 23 September 1992 03:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: Comments on SNMP/SMP Coexistence...
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From: Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>

> Shouldnt 4.1.2 (1) note that it assumes the SMP Manager is acting in a
> bi-lingual role.
> 
> Wouldnt another alternative be for the proxy AGENT described in 4.1.2 to 
> act as a truly transparent proxy AGENT, returning compliant SMP PDUs?

No, the SMP manager is not bi-lingual.  In the ideal, a completely
transparent proxy would be great.  However, the mapping between SNMP ->
SMP is not without loss of information.  For example, if you get back a
noSuchName, you don't know whether to map it into an exception (or even
which exception).  Even if you could, what do you do about the other
varbinds.

> Is 4.1.2 describing the AGENT, or the 'as if it were a proxy agent' in 
> the MANAGER (as noted in 4.2 para 2).

The section discusses the behavior of a proxy agent.

/mtr

Re: Comments on SNMP/SMP Coexistence... Marshall Rose
Re: Comments on SNMP/SMP Coexistence... Keith McCloghrie
Re: Comments on SNMP/SMP Coexistence... Keith McCloghrie