Re: Clarification required

Hi Sam,

"Sam K. Sankoorikal" wrote:
> 
>             Here it seems we are running into a loop. Does this again
> mean that based on what entries we have in the natAddrBindTable the
> value of natConfAddrMapEntryType is decided. 

No. Whether the entries in the Bind tables are static or dynamic
are decided by the value of natConfAddrMapEntryType.

-Rajiv.

> But I guess we already have
> natAddrBindType - to decide what types of NatAddrBindEntry are present
> there. Shouldn't it be that the Bind table uses the values in the
>  natConfAddrMapEntryType to decide what type of entry it must hold there??
> 
> Thanks for the clarification,
> Sam.
> 
> Rajiv Raghunarayan wrote:
> 
> >Hi Sam,
> >
> >As we've discussed below, a network admin specifies the address map in the
> >natConfAddrMapTable, and at the same time also determines whether this
> >needs to be a static map or a dynamic one. A simple rule for this could be
> >- if the no. of internal & external addresses is equal use static map,
> >else dynamic. And this could potentially be employed and the object
> >implemented as read-only by certain implementations. But this certainly
> >doesn't address all cases e.g. a customer might want to use dynamic map
> >inspite of equal internal & external addr. count. The mib definition would
> >need to account for all such cases too. Hence, the natConfAddrMapEntryType
> >is a read-create object.
> >
> >-Rajiv.