RE: RFC 2576 vs IPv6

"Philip J. Nesser II" <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:53:24 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.snmpv3
Organization Nesser & Nesser Consulting
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Bert,

You did, and I thought I had made all of your changes, but I must
have missed this one.  It WILL be fixed in the -01 draft.  

- --->  Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wijnen, Bert (Bert) [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:33 PM
> To: Randy Presuhn; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: RFC 2576 vs IPv6
> 
> I thought I had made similar comment to an earlier version
> of phil's document.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bert
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Randy Presuhn [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: woensdag 19 februari 2003 21:50
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: RFC 2576 vs IPv6
> >
> >
> > Hi -
> >
> > I think the analysis of RFC 2576 in section 5.070 (see below) of
> > draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv4survey-ops-00.txt is incorrect.
> > These rules for handling legacy data which happen to be
> > IPv4 addresses have no bearing on the ability to operate
> > in or manage IPv6 environments.
> >
> > Randy
> >
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> > 5.070 RFC 2576 Coexistence between Version 1 Version 2 and
> > Version 
> >       3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework
> > (SNMP) 
> >
> > This document states:
> >
> >    (11) For any object with a SYNTAX of NetworkAddress, the
> > SYNTAX MUST
> >         be changed to IpAddress.  Note that the use of
> > NetworkAddress in
> >         new MIB documents is strongly discouraged (in fact, new
> > MIB 
> >         documents should be written using SMIv2, which does not
> > define 
> >         NetworkAddress).
> >
> > and defines the OID:
> >
> > snmpTrapAddress OBJECT-TYPE
> >     SYNTAX      IpAddress
> >     MAX-ACCESS  accessible-for-notify
> >     STATUS      current
> >     DESCRIPTION
> >         "The value of the agent-addr field of a Trap PDU which
> >          is forwarded by a proxy forwarder application using
> >          an SNMP version other than SNMPv1.  The value of this
> >          object SHOULD contain the value of the agent-addr field
> >          from the original Trap PDU as generated by an SNMPv1
> >          agent."
> >     ::= { snmpCommunityMIBObjects 3 }
> >
> > This clearly points out a lack of IPv6 awareness in this
> > protocol. 
> >
> >
> >

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