Subject: Excessive data staleness for ifMIB and interfaces get-responses

From: "Bert Wijnen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 99 12:47:48 DST

Ref:  Your note of Wed, 14 Jul 1999 07:40:56 -500

Subject: Re: Excessive data staleness for ifMIB and interfaces get-responses

Mmmm... is any of the IF-MIB designers and/or implementers going to
respond to this question?

The report to me seems to indicate:
- Maybe one (major) or more verndors have a BUG in their implementation
  Then it is a vendor problem
- Maybe it is difficult (impossible?) to keep such counters reasonably
  in sync with real life.
  Then it seems to me we should not define such counters
- In any event, I'd like to hear some feedback on this before
  I would agree to adavnce this MIB on the standards track.

Bert