Subject: TE Link MIB/Bandwidth Objects

From: "Martin Dubuc" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 14:33:04 -0500

A concern was raised to change the type of the bandwidth objects of the TE link MIB. The current type expresses bandwidth in 1000 of bps on a 32 bit integer, which means the bandwidth of links is constrained at 4000 Gbps. I have investigated the issue and found that some drafts, like draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic-10.txt use 32-bit IEEE floating point format to represent link bandwidth. I am wondering if there is agreement to use such type in the TE link MIB.

Martin