RE: New trap

Hi,

Maintenance of the Bridge Mib modules has been taken over by the IEEE
802.1 WG.

As a result, this proposal is out of scope for the Bridge MIB WG
mailing list.
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David Harrington
[email protected] 
[email protected]
[email protected]
co-chair, Bridge-MIB WG 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ravikumarb [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: [Bridge-mib] New trap
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We would like to porpose a new trap for bridges so that they 
> can detect malfunctioning neighbour bridges. Lets call it as 
> "neighbourUnreachable". This trap will be generated by the 
> bridge if it doesn't receive 5 consecutive Hello BPDUs from a 
> port, which was receiving these messages earlier. This trap 
> will be useful to detect cases where the bridge and its ports 
> were functioning properly for some time and suddenly started 
> malfunctioning due to a hardware glitch or a software bug. 
> Note that link failure (down) trap won't be raised as the 
> link is UP from the PHY point of view. This is analogous to 
> Hello messages used by Routing Protocols to detect routing 
> peers. This trap will be very useful for the NMS to take 
> appropriate actions. Note that this is very different from 
> "topologyChange" trap, which just tells that the port has 
> transitioned to Blocking State from Forwarding State. This 
> trap tells that the bridge is not functioning properly at all 
> from the port's point of view. It has a specific meaning and 
> is detected fast. Following would be its structure:
> 
> neighbourUnreachable NOTIFICATION-TYPE
>     OBJECTS     { dot1dBaseBridgeAddress dot1dBasePort 
> dot1dBasePortIfIndex }
>     STATUS      current
>     DESCRIPTION
>         "A neighbourUnreachable trap is sent by a bridge when it
>         doesn't receive 5 consecutive Hello BPDUs. This will
>         allow a bridge to detect malfunctions of the neighbour
>         bridge even when the link state to the neighbour bridge
>         is UP. It is analogous to Hello messages used by Routing
>         Protocols to detect whether the neighbour router is
>         functional."
>     ::= { dot1dNotifications 3 }
> 
> Please let us know your thoughts regarding the proposed trap.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Ravi
> 
> 
> 
> 
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