RE: FWD: Restart ifmib WG?

"Dave Thaler" <[email protected]> Thu, 1 May 2003 14:56:40 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ifmib
Message-ID <C9588551DE135A41AA2626CB6453093701C9D3E6@WIN-MSG-10.wingroup.windeploy.ntdev.microsoft.com>
There's been a number of suggestions on this list
for improvements that would be useful to add in a 
supplemental IF MIB module in a separate RFC.

On this topic, I recently received some IF MIB 
feedback from folks here in Microsoft on things 
they considered to be missing:
> I also see RFC to be inadequate in not being able 
> to report -not known- for -current- link state and 
> speed (and instead using maximum link speed) 
> Not having separate [objects] for xmit and 
> receive link speeds, not having an object for 
> permanent mac address, no support for power 
> management, etc.

-Dave