Re: Question on LMP-MIB ?

[Zafar Ali <zali@cisco.com>]

At 04:13 PM 4/15/2002 -0500, Loc Chu wrote:
> Hi all, 
>
> The Section 3 of the LMP draft states: 
>
> "To establish a control channel, the destination IP address on
> the  far end of 
>  the control channel must be known. This knowledge may be manually
> configured 
>  or automatically discovered." 
>
> Also, Section 9 of the LMP draft states: 
>
> "The manner in which a Config message is addressed may depend on the
> signaling 
>  transport mechanism.  When the transport mechanism is a
> point-to-point link, Config 
>  messages SHOULD be sent to the Multicast address (224.0.0.1). 
> Otherwise, Config 
>  messages MUST be sent to an IP address on the neighboring
> node.  This is configured 
>  at both ends of the control channel." 
>
> In case of IPCC's are out-of-fiber/out-of-band and NOT point-to-point
> link, we have to 
> use a specific IP address for the remote end of the IPCC.  Where do
> we keep the remote 
> IPCC Address ? 

Hi Loc, 

I think, the IP address of the neighboring node should also be used, in
this case as well. Why you feel that IPCC address need to be different
from IP address of the neighboring node? 

Thanks

Regards... Zafar 


> if not, is it possible to have a field in
> lmpControlChannelEntry MIB for configuring 
> the remote IPCC address such as: 
>
> lmpCcRemoteIpAddr OBJECT-TYPE 
>   
> SYNTAX              
> InetAddress 
>    MAX-ACCESS    read-create 
>   
> STATUS              
> current 
>    DESCRIPTION "IP address associated with remote
> IPCC." 
>    ::= { lmpControlChannelEntry 23 } 
>
> Thanks in advance for your help or any clarification since my question is
> too 
> implementation specific. 
>
> Regards, 
> -- 
> Loc Chu
> Software Development
> Engineer         Alcatel, USA 
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