Subject: RE: # Re: [Adslmib] Suggested Corrections to Performance Paramet ers: [Comments onVe

From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:50:47 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Umberto Bonollo [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: donderdag 21 november 2002 7:09
> To: 'Michael Sneed'; [email-masked]
> Subject: RE: # Re: [Adslmib] Suggested Corrections to Performance
> Parameters: [Comments onVe
> 
> Essentially, a mechanical translation from SMIv2 to SMIv1, which some
> organisations use, will result in all Counter64 variables 
> being dropped from the resultant SMIv1 MIB.
> 
I would URGE people VERY STRONGLY That in 2002 (or 2003 when
your MIB Module will be ready) that they migrate to SNMPv3.

> Apart from this, almost very other SMIv2 construct is available in
> SMIv1 form.
> 
> So to *** minimise information loss when going to SMIv1 ***
> a designer should use Counter64 with reluctance as a general
> comment applicable to what's out there today.
> In the future, this rule might diminish in importance...
> 
That was a rule/guideline we used some 8 years or so ago.

Bert
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