No answer from anywhere, even the State of Confusion...
B. R.
Tina
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tina TSOU
To: ipv6@ietf.org ; v6...@ops.ietf.org ; Bob Hinden ; Dan Romascanu ;
fen...@fenron.com ; fen...@gmail.com ; dtha...@microsoft.com ;
br...@innovationslab.net ; brian.haber...@jhuapl.edu ; s...@iwl.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:11 AM
Subject: Questions on RFC 4293 Management Information Base for the Internet
Protocol (IP)
Hi all,
In RFC 4293,
- ipAddressTable is described as writable, this table uses address
as index, but the critical information for configuring address, the
address prefix ipAddressPrefix node is read-only. It seems
contradict to me.
This table uses address as index, but the public network and VPN
may have exactly the same IP address. This table does not
explicitly say whether it only supports public network. If
supporting VPN at the same time, there might occur the following
case: only on address is displayed among the same IP addresses.
ipAddressTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF IpAddressEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This table contains addressing information relevant to the
entity's interfaces.
This table does not contain multicast address information.
Tables for such information should be contained in multicast
specific MIBs, such as RFC 3019.
While this table is writable, the user will note that
several objects, such as ipAddressOrigin, are not. The
intention in allowing a user to write to this table is to
allow them to add or remove any entry that isn't
permanent. The user should be allowed to modify objects
and entries when that would not cause inconsistencies
within the table. Allowing write access to objects, such
as ipAddressOrigin, could allow a user to insert an entry
and then label it incorrectly.
ipAddressPrefix OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX RowPointer
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A pointer to the row in the prefix table to which this
address belongs. May be { 0 0 } if there is no such row."
DEFVAL { zeroDotZero }
::= { ipAddressEntry 5 }
B. R.
Tina
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