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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:FDDI - The Next Generation
Moderator:NETCAD::STEFANI
Created:Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2259
Total number of notes:8590

1168.0. "No subnet mask for SNMP mgmt?" by COMICS::REYNOLDS (Mad Dogs and Englishmen) Thu Dec 02 1993 11:52

    
    Hello,
      
            there seems to be an issue managing our FDDI kit from
    HPs Openview:  we do not set up an IP subnet mask, only an IP address.
    I guess we get round this on say a DEFCN by ARPing for the management
    station and on receiving no reply, use the configurable default
    gateway address.
    
    However, Openview seems to insist on reading a subnet mask and uses
    this as a basis for mapping the DEFCN graphically. The customer
    gets an error back (presumably because the DEFCN supplies a blank
    field for subnetmask) and it ends up all alone on the graph!
    
    Can anyone advise whether a) it is mandatory to store a subnet mask
    when you implement MIB II (I take it this is the relevant MIB)
    
     b) the DEFCN gets round not having a subnet mask in the way I
    describe above.
    
    If the answer is no, its not mandatory and it isn't our problem,
    it soon will be when we ship Polycentre Netview since this 
    is basically the same as Openview!
    
    thanks,
    
                   John Reynolds, UK CSC, Comms.
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