Subject: RE: Regarding Counter64 in iSCSI MIB draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-mib-05. txt

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 05:18:53 -0400

Yes, 32 bit counters are needed for at least the 32 LSBs of each
64 bit counter, and providing a pair to cover all 64 bits would
be a good thing.  I presume the MIB authors will add this accordingly.

Thanks,
--David
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> iSCSI MIB has two Counter64 counters (iscsiSsnTxDataOctets,
> iscsiSsnRxDataOctets) and the MIB document (section 4) 
> suggests that SNMPv1
> Agents could drop support for such counters. I was informed 
> that IPS working
> group made a decision to support SNMPv1 agents by providing 
> two Counter32
> MIB Variables for each Counter64 MIB variable. 
> 
> Transmitted Data Octets and Received Data Octets are very important
> statistics information and it would be useful if SNMPv1 
> agents could provide
> this information.
> 
> Thanks,
> Siva
>