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Re: ifIndex
From: Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:37:43 -0500
Once upon a time, Randy Bush <randy () psg com> said:
do folk have experience with platforms where ifIndexes are not stable across reboots etc? how do you deal with it? do some of those platforms trap on change?
Is there any good excuse that SNMP client software can't handle a basic design of SNMP - indexed tables? ifIndex is far from the only index in SNMP, and many of them still change today at various times. It isn't that hard to fetch the indexed field in a bulk get, rewalking the table if you don't get what you expected. Cricket did this in 1999. -- Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
Current thread:
- ifIndex Randy Bush (Oct 12)
- Re: ifIndex Steve Meuse (Oct 12)
- Re: ifIndex Chris Adams (Oct 12)
- RE: ifIndex Naslund, Steve (Oct 12)
- Re: ifIndex Mel Beckman (Oct 12)
- Re: ifIndex Saku Ytti (Oct 13)
- Re: ifIndex Mel Beckman (Oct 13)
- Re: ifIndex David Hubbard (Oct 13)
- Re: ifIndex Mel Beckman (Oct 13)
- Re: ifIndex David Hubbard (Oct 13)
- RE: ifIndex Naslund, Steve (Oct 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: ifIndex Scott Weeks (Oct 12)