Subject: bgpM2CfgConfederationRouter in BGP4-V2-MIB

From: "Bruno Rijsman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:53:07 -0500

Do we really need the read-write object bgpM2CfgConfederationRouter in
BGP4-V2-MIB? Setting this object to false to "make the implementation
not support confederations" doesn't seem to make much sense.

Note that "the implementation does not support confederations" is
something different from "the BGP speaker is not a confederation router"
which does make sense and which is achieved by setting
bgpM2CfgConfederationId to zero.

Relevant snippet from BGP4-V2-MIB:

    bgpM2CfgConfederationRouter OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX     TruthValue
        MAX-ACCESS read-write
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "This value is set to true if this implementation will be
             supporting BGP AS Confederations."
        REFERENCE
            "RFC 3065 - Autonomous System Confederations for BGP"
        ::= { bgpM2CfgBaseScalarASConfedExts 1 }

    bgpM2CfgConfederationId OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX     InetAutonomousSystemNumber
        MAX-ACCESS read-write
        STATUS     current
        DESCRIPTION
            "The local Confederation Identification Number.

             This value will be zero (0) if this BGP Speaker is not
             a confederation router."
        REFERENCE
            "RFC 3065 - Autonomous System Confederations for BGP"
        ::= { bgpM2CfgBaseScalarASConfedExts 2 }

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