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From: stev@VAX.FTP.COM
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Subject: Re: DoD --> CMOT and SNMP
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Date: 22 Sep 89 16:55:08 GMT
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*We chose instead to allow the vendor community 
*to implement either.  The management station therefore is 
*REQUIRED to implement both.


*Stan Ames


as someone looking into developing management stations, where can i
get two independantly constructed CMOTs to test my code against?
there are several SNMP "stacks" around (CASE's, Proteon's,
NYSERNet's, cisco's, MIT's, CMU's).  is anyone ready to give me the IP
address of an agent to test against?  is anyone working on a public
domain "stack" like the MIT and CMU SNMP code?

good luck getting a management station to understand both at this
point in time.


i dont necessarily think SNMP is god's gift to network management.
but, it is out there, it does work, it seems to be widely supported.
why go over to something like CMOT unless it offers much greater
functionality, which it does not seem to. it's big draw seems to be 
a connection to ISO (or is it OSI?) standards. i wouldnt be suprised to
find the SNMP people porting SNMP to run on TP4/CLNP.


stev knowles
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