anyone ever used traceRouteCtlMiscOptions?
Juergen Quittek <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:54:08 +0200
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Dear all,
I have a question concerning object traceRouteCtlMiscOptions
in the DISMAN-TRACEROUTE-MIB. It is defined as follows:
traceRouteCtlMiscOptions OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"Enables an application to specify implementation
dependent options."
DEFVAL { ''H }
::= { traceRouteCtlEntry 15 }
It can serve for passing additional, non-standardized parameters to remote
traceroute execution. The standard does not give a hint what it could be
used for.
The question to the group is:
Has anyone ever used this object or at least implemented it?
If not, Juergen S. suggest to deprecate or obsolete it:
--On 5/3/2005 5:15 PM +0200 Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> - I am wondering what traceRouteCtlMiscOptions is good for other than
> proprietary extensions which IMHO should go into table augmentations.
> Otherwise, we could put opaque options in almost all tables. I suggest
> to document how this object is actually used by existing implementations
> or to deprecate or even obsolete it.
Thanks,
Juergen Q.
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