RE: Notifications

["Sharon Chisholm" <schishol@nortelnetworks.com>]

Hi

I've never viewed it as good practice. The problem is when that the SMI cab
be updated to add extra varbinds as happens with linkUp and linkDown. So for
the same varbind in some implementations you see what is in the SMI and in
others you see random junk. Yeah, sure you get the OID of the variable but
if you are just looking at stuff in a dumb Notification viewer or someone
does not write their code terribly well, this can cause confusion.

Sharon

-----Original Message-----
From: Harrington, David [mailto:dbh@enterasys.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 7:13 PM
To: mreview@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Notifications


Hi,

RFC2578, section 8.1 allows agents to append extra varbinds to
notifications. Is this considered a bad practice?

dbh