David, Please find one additional comment response to your suggestion.
Excerpts from [email protected] on 12/27/2009: > I suggest adding a Section 3.3 to discuss use of ifIndex with ICMP and > network management tools (e.g., enhanced traceroute plus an SNMP > manager) I still feel that discussing this use would be a strong distraction and divertion, and not add substativeness to the spec, ultimatelly causing confusion. My traceroute app at home does IP address-to-name mapping, querying DNS and reporting hostnames; ICMP timexceeded was not spec'ed that way, but a 'traceroute + hostname manager querier' was useful. It also does: -A: Report AS# at each hop (from GRR) -O: Report owner at each hop (from DNS) because it was useful, and reports TOS change, none of which was including on the ICMP timeexceeded or unreachable definitions. A public use of the ifIndex can be to see different interfaces in a router, seeing ECMPs with unnumbered, and not mapping them to an interface name with an SNMP manager. That is a degree of idenfication, to know they are different. Describing an app like you suggest would implicitly limit, I think. We are not spec'ing an application, only the extensions of ICMP, and it seems to me that there is enough contextual applicability and motivation (without falling into over-framing and under-scoping). Thanks, -- Carlos. _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
