The IP Over NBMA (ION) Archive

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In a message dated 96-12-24 09:03:56 EST, tjsmith@VNET.IBM.COM (Timothy J.
Smith) writes:

> I think the issue here is not whether the vendors and administrators
>  will try to do a good job.  I believe the problem will be one more of
>  timing.  Vendors obviously are not all on the same schedule, and in
>  a multi-vendor site, you may very well have a situation where some
>  of the releases of code are V1 and some are V2.  In addition, in
>  large sites, it becomes almost impossible to reload everyone's
>  software at once.

There will be a large number of ROM based network devices that support
only SNMPv1, that will never be upgraded and that will continue in
use for a very long time.

Joachim Martillo