I'm of course familiar with the Motorola enterprise MIBs which they constantly add to. But here's the issue why I soapbox'ed that changing a previously defined OIDs is shameful. Take the effort to develop an snmp management function ... update some device's firmware and the management function CEASES TO WORK (only happens if the manufacturer changes previously defined objects). I can't see any excuse for this. OIDs once defined should not change. If you want to provide a new model with radically different MIBs, they must spawn from a new branch under the manufacturer's enterprise MIB. No changes permitted, no exceptions, zero tolerance. I've no knowledge that Trango did this ... I'm just providing justification for my quotation that David replied to.
On another part of David's reply he comments on interface.InOctets. >And don't even get me started on >the fact that they don't use the same Enterprise MIBs that pretty much >everyone else on the planet uses for 'interface.InOctets' and so on. The interfaces MIB is a standard part of the MIB-II set of objects (OIDs) which is not part of the manufacturer's "enterprise" proprietary objects. There's no problem with a device containing both (the MIB-II set and an enterprise set / I've seen several radios that contain both), but if a device includes the MIB-II set it's not in the manufacturer's authority to redefine them ... they only get to make up their own definition of their enterprise objects. Is the interface.InOctets MIB you referred to part of the standardized MIB-II or just a "similarly named" object of the manufacturer's proprietary enterprise MIB? Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Tracking Signal / Noise / Resends / Etc. rcomroe wrote: > Under no circumstances should > any > manufacturer CHANGE THE DEFINITION OF A PREVIOUSLY DEFINED OID. and yet... Trango's MIBs for the 5800 and 5830 are wildly different. Never mind that they're substantially the same hardware (from the point of view of "how you use them in your network," at least). And don't even get me started on the fact that they don't use the same Enterprise MIBs that pretty much everyone else on the planet uses for 'interface.InOctets' and so on. Since you can only download MIBs for the current software versions, you'll have to take me at my word that they've changed them in the past (for the 5800 AP, between firmware versions 1.4 and 1.64 they were different). I could be mis-remembering this, or confusing things (say, a tower where we replaced a 5800 with a 5830 or vice-versa), and if I'm wrong I'll cop to it. But I truly believe, with religious fervor and zeal, that Trango has changed their MIBs with different point releases of the firmware. Sorry, I didn't mean for this to turn into a Trango rant. David Smith MVN.net -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
