Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!bmc!eva!robert From: ROBERT@eva.slu.se (Robert Olsson datoravd, EMC tfn 018-672581) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Management interfaces on LANs (802.1) Message-ID: <6683@eva.slu.se> Date: 19 Nov 89 21:50:40 GMT References: <6465@portia.Stanford.EDU> <2875@levels.sait.edu.au> Organization: SLU, Swedish university of agricultural sciences Lines: 25 >> 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. > At our university we just ordered BICC's Isoview & bridges for the fist stage of our campus network. So far Isoview implements 802.1 b and 802.1 d. Spanning tree is described in part d and is as far a I understand implemeted by many vendors. The 802.1 drafts can be ordered from IEEE. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Dept. of Statistics, Data Processing and Agricultural Extension Computer Section EMC, Box 7072, 750 07 UPPSALA, SWEDEN Tel +46 18 672407 E-mail robert@eva.slu.se, SUNET eva::robert, FAX +46 18 302876