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Re: ILMI - Reg. Automatic configuration procedures.

  • From: newton@frntes.hpn.lkg.dec.com (Tom Newton)
  • Date: 26 Mar 1998 01:05:26 GMT

In article <6f7q49$dfr$1@debris.uits.indiana.edu> "Shishir Jain" <shishir_jain@hotmail.com> writes:
>I have following questions/confusions regarding the above statement:
>
>1. Where is the actual number of the active VPI bits set after taking 
>the minimum of the two? Is it in the MIB or somewhere else?

Somewhere else ... in the signalling, etc. software running on each node.

>
>2. It says the local value of this object should not be modified. What 
>is meant by local value of this object? Is it the MIB? or the source 
>from where the value is retrieved locally into the MIB?

The MIB, and whatever source indicates the maximum active VPI bits for the
device (as opposed to the maximum bits for the current connection).

Not speaking for my employer,
Thomas Newton