Re: Portlist in RFC2764

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:22:33PM -0600, Pat Medved wrote:
>I noticed the portlist in rfc2764.  I've seen this same thing in other
>Vendors MIbs as well.  I was wondering what these port numbers are.
>
>If they are ports 1-256, what do those numbers map to on the switch
>itself?  I was trying to find the correlation between these ports
>and the ports in the bridge MIB itself.

Have a look at
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0102/ppt/mibs/sld082.htm

In short, dot1dBasePortNum are typically mapped to an ifIndex.
Then from ifIndex you can check with either an entity mib or
an enterprise mib module to locate the vendor port identifier.

>Also, if there is only 32 octets, what goes in this list if more than 256 
>ports are on a bridge?

PortList TC uses a plain OCTET STRING, it can be larger than 32 octets.
See rfc 2578 section 7.1.2.

Regards,
Mike MacFaden