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Re: discontinuity timers for Counters
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:02:30PM +0200, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> What do we think about something like this:
> "Discontinuities of this counter are indicated by sysUpTime and
> ifCounterDiscontinuityTime for the associated ifIndex."
>
> Does that make sense?
> This is in document draft-ietf-ipcdn-bpiplus-mib-13.tx
I think it would be extremely helpful to have a discussion what this
means somewhere in the introductionary text together with a pointer to
the relevant text in the IF-MIB RFCs (which has some paragraphs about
this subject that are interesting to know for implementors).
Looking at the MIB, the question that I have is the interaction of
discontinuities with these ZeroBasedCounter32 objects. Does a
discontinuity couse these counters to be reset to zero? The TC says
that a zero based counter is set to zero(0) on creation and it has
additional text that the intended usage is in tables where the index
space is constantly changing. Does this apply here?
/js
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