Re: partial comments on section 5 of ibif

Hi -

> From: "Vandana Rao" <[email protected]>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Cc: "'Bert Wijnen'" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ipoverib] partial comments on section 5 of ibif
...
> I'm not sure how this should be addressed then. I do understand your point,
> but there is no way
> that we can mandate this on IB devices without obsoleting existing h/w.
...

If managed systems do not know when they've processed multicast traffic,
then those systems should not instantiate the multicast-related counters for
those interfaces in the interfaces MIB, and, consequently, their vendors
should not claim they conform to RFC 2863.   This is how this kind of
situation has been handled since the earliest days of SNMP. The ibif
document should specify the *correct* behavior for those counters in
the context of what can happen in the InfiniBand protocol, not any particular
chip's implementation.  This seems simple enough to me.

Randy