Subject: Non-member submission from [Bob Stewart <[email-masked]>]

From: "Ted Brunner 503.627.1317" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:44:18 -0700

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At 11:40 AM 6/23/98 -0700, Keith McCloghrie wrote:
>That's why I described it as a "potential" problem.  While we can check
>whether any standard MIBs import ifStackXxxx, it's not feasible to do
>so for Enterprise MIBs.  I can think of two reasons why an Enterprise
>would IMPORT an ifStackXxxx definition:
>
>- to AUGMENT the ifStackTable - this is probably unlikely.
>- within an AGENT CAPABILITIES statement - this is quite likely.

This doesn't sound worth worrying about.  If it actually does cause anyone
any trouble, we can apologize.  The usage of AGENT-CAPABILITIES just
doesn't run deep enough in the industry to believe we'd really cause any
significant damage.

	Bob

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