RE: Draft-ietf-bridge-bridgemib-smiv2 Issues Resolution

>From the experts floor at the IEEE 802.1 interim meeting where I happen to be right now - the maximum number of ports on a 802.1D bridge is 4k-1. Thus the 512 bytes size limit is justified. 

Regards,

Dan



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> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Juergen Schoenwaelder
> Sent: 12 January, 2005 12:33 AM
> To: David B Harrington
> Cc: 'Wijnen, Bert (Bert)'; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Bridge-mib] Draft-ietf-bridge-bridgemib-smiv2 
> Issues Resolution
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:17:28PM -0500, David B Harrington wrote:
> 
> > 3) the range has been constrained in the revision. This is probably
> > not a problem, but it is a semantic change.
> 
> Does someone recall where the introduced size limit for 
> ...AllowedToGoTo
> object comes from?  The port index is restricted to 65535 and 
> from that
> perspective the upper boundary would be 8K and not 512 bytes (which 
> is equivalent to a maximum of 4096 ports). Can some IEEE 802.1 expert
> please explain this?
> 
> /js
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