RE: draft-jacquenet-ip-te-cops-01.txt

[Rajiv Dighe <rajiv@cplane.com>]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, NOISETTE Yoann FTRD/DMI/CAE wrote:

> 
> Finally, does anyone knows any answer to this :
> 
> In the Framework PIB document, in the given example about roles (§3.1.1), it
> is assumed that roles can be changed by the system administrator. I
> understand this is done directly on the device embedding the PEP. What are
> the other means to change the
> roles ? Can it be done remotely ? Using COPS ? (this implies that changes
> can be applied on a per-interface basis leading each interface to have a
> specific role combination equivalent to the SNMP ifIndex). 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Yoann
Yoann,

   AFAIK in theory COPS *does not* provide any way to do this. In Reality,
this will be purely implementation dependant. device manufacturer may
choose to expose that functionality purely via hardwired console, thru
telnet or even web or corba interface. 

Regards,

--Rajiv