I am posting this to both the IPv6 and MIB mailing lists to get the benefit of both groups' feedback.
On our platform we support IP addresses that exist on multiple hosts but are only owned (i.e., advertised to routers) by one of these hosts. They exist on the other hosts as part of a workload balancing function for TCP connections. This has caused problems for some network management apps that provide topology discovery information using data obtained from the SNMP ipAddrTable from RFC2011. When the management app sees the same IP address in the ipAddrTable from 2 different hosts, the app thinks the IP address has moved. Is there a recommended way of reporting these addresses? Now we are looking into implementing the ipAddressTable from the replacement for RFC2011, draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2011-update-01.txt. Would it be appropriate for us to use values of either the ipAddressOrigin or the ipAddressStatus MIB objects for these IP addresses, to indicate that they are not really owned by a host even though they appear in that host's ipAddressTable? If so, which values of which MIB object would be appropriate for us to use? And should we use a null RowPointer for the ipAddressPrefix MIB object for these IP addresses? Thanks, Kristine Adamson IBM Communications Server for MVS: TCP/IP Development Internet e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
