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Two TE MIBs

  • From: Bora Akyol <akyol@pluris.com>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:26:45 -0800
  • Cc: mpls@UU.NET, te-wg@UU.NET

Of course some of the vendors may be implementing a MIB that combines 
the best parts of both of these.

Bora
Who thinks having one MIB would have been easier.


On Sunday, March 25, 2001, at 12:18 PM, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:

> Inline
>
>> ----------
>> From: 	Thomas D. Nadeau[SMTP:tnadeau@cisco.com]
>> Sent: 	Sunday, March 25, 2001 3:07 PM
>> To: 	Rao Vadlamani; mpls@UU.NET; te-wg@UU.NET
>> Cc: 	cheenu Srinivasan; Arun Viswanathan
>> Subject: 	Re: Two TE MIBs
>>
>>
>>          Hi,
>>
>>> Could someone clarify as to why there are 2 draft TE MIB's
>>> draft-ietf-mpls-te-mib-06.txt of Thomas D. Nadeu etal and
>>> draft-ietf-tewg-mib-00.txt of Kireeti ? If I understand, both are 
>>> going
>>> for a IESG approval, too. If my understanding is correct both the MIBs
>>> are giving more or less the same information. except in the second MIB
>>> of kireeti, all the objects are only read-only and operator can't
> My understanding is that Kireeti was going to change MAX-ACCESS to
> read-create or read-write
>>> exercise control over them ? What's the motivation behind this ?
>>> Thanks in advance for the clarification and I am sorry to pose this
>>> question if this is already raised and discussed.
>>
>>          Beats me why there are two, but I am not going to beat
>> a dead horse and argue about it any longer though. This was discussed
>> at length late last summer, and I suggest you go back and re-read
>> the archive so that you can come to your own informed conclusion.
>> The outcome of the discussion at that time was that IESG agreed to
>> have two.
>>
> But we prefer to have no (or as few as possible) overlaps.
> Maybe we need to check how this can be achieved.
>
> My understanding at the time of a quick briefing was that they do 
> different
> things. Specifically the MIB(s) developed in MPLS WG have lots of stuff
> to be able to "debug" MPLS. Also... the message I got was that the MIB
> from MPLS WG was to be run at each node, while the TE-WG MIB
> does not need to run at each node.
>
> I will look into these MIBs in more detail over the next weeks.
>
> Bert
>
>>          --Tom
>>
>>
>>
>


  • References:
    • Two TE MIBs
      • From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>