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From: dricejb@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson drilex1)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: 10Base T concentrators
Message-ID: <18378@drilex.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 90 23:20:50 GMT
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In article <18422@netcom.UUCP> jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) writes:
>In article <1990Dec08.035741.21006@shl.com> phil@shl.com (Phil Trubey) writes:
>>sending it ... this only applies if you have Cabletron cards however, since
>>WD cards do not *yet* support SNMP (although they are planning it).
>
>Why not just run FTP's or Wollongong's agent on the card? If you use a packet
>driver or NDIS driver, you don't have to wait for Cabletron to support SNMP
>on the card of your choice - don't see any advantage to Cabletron unless they
>are extending the standard mib on the PC card.

I recently saw announcements from Cabletron that they now have SNMP agents
for WD and 3com cards.  The agent for the Cabletron card is a 20-30k TSR.
I'm not familiar with the FTP or Wollongong agents--how are they packaged?

Cabletron claims that the SNMP agent is independent of other protocol
stacks using the card, including TCP/IP.  I'm not sure how that could
be done.  I haven't had the chance to really dive in and figure it out.

(Note: I don't know any more info about the Cabletron WD and 3com agents.
With their own cards, most of their workstation drivers are packet-driver
based.  One could assume that their 3com and WD agents are also
packet-driver based, but one could easily be wrong.)
-- 
Craig Jackson
dricejb@drilex.dri.mgh.com
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