Subject: Non-member submission from ["Brian Hassink" <[email-masked]>]

From: "Ted Brunner 503.627.1317" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:03:22 -0800

Ted Brunner		VideoTele.com
			Tektronix
			MS 50-475
[email-masked]	14150 SW Karl Braun
503.627.1317		Beaverton OR 97005	

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Sender: "Brian Hassink" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 13:05:25 -0500
From: "Brian Hassink" <[email-masked]>
Organization: Nortel
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Subject: ifIndex and fault tolerant interfaces
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Hello,

I'm new to this forum, but it seemed like the best place to pose this
question. Basically, I'm looking for clarification on how ifIndex numbers
are utilized when fault tolerant hardware is involved.

For example, if I have a device which has a redundant pair of interface
cards (i.e. the cards are in a protection group such that the two physical
interfaces behave as a single logical interface in a 1+1 sparing model), are
these two interfaces managed as a single interface (one ifIndex value and
one instance of associated MIB information) or are they managed
independently (two ifIndex values and two instances of essentially duplicate
MIB information)?

Cheers,
Brian
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Brian Hassink
(919) 991-7541, (ESN) 351-7541
Next Generation Access, Nortel Networks, RTP, North Carolina

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