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From: Chris.Rusbridge@levels.sait.edu.au (Chris Rusbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Management interfaces on LANs (802.1)
Message-ID: <2875@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 17 Nov 89 12:23:49 GMT
References: <CMM.0.88.626530259.jon@gode.uio.no> <6465@portia.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <6465@portia.Stanford.EDU>, morgan@jessica.Stanford.EDU 
(RL "Bob" Morgan) writes:

> The innaresting thing to
> me was they also were using a draft management spec from the IEEE
> 802.1 committee to manage (er, monitor) the Ethernet (er, 802.3) layer
> on some of the devices.  They said they were planning to put 802.1
> management hooks into the NDIS-compatible drivers they ship with their
> Ethernet cards for PCs.  The 802.1 spec was described as an early
> draft but better than nothing.  Has anyone heard of anyone else making
> use of this?

BICC sells something called Isoview to control its "managed bridges".
They claimed the product is based on the 802.1 spec. I've not been
able to find out more about the spec, except for the feeling that it
is un-related to CMIP and SNMP. The product runs on a 386 system with
VGA. 

Chris Rusbridge (no relationship with BICC, except we use some of 
their fibre gear)

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