Re: Recommendation on the path forward for EOS
Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.eos |
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>>>>> Dave Shield writes: Dave> One question: Dave> Is it intended that this would be a new PDU within the existing Dave> SNMPv3/v3MP framework, or would we be expecting to define a new Dave> version at some level (either SNMPv4 or SNMPv3/v4MP) ? I have not seen anybody who seriously proposed to invent a new message processing model. But I guess your question is which mechanism or bit we use to signal that one is sending new PDUs. This is certainly a question to think about. And even if the answer would be to toggle a bit in the SNMP version field, I still would not call that another message processing model. But I am not convinced we need to bump the version field at all. [BTW, several years ago I lost a battle to convince the SNMPv3 WG that we should have a report mechanism for unknown PDUs so that apps can simply try new ones without having to wait for a timeout...] /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>