Distributed SNMP agent for frame relay switching network
US6370152B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 1, 1998 |
| Grant date | Apr 9, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 1, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L41/046
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A simple network management protocol (SNMP) agent is distributed among individual channel units of frame relay switching system, rather than in a proxy device. The SNMP agent is implemented by encoding the identity of an individual channel device for whom a data packet is intended in the community data string portion of an SNMP packet. For a read request, the address of a channel unit is encoded as an augmented community string, such as “public.#”. For a write request, the address is encoded as an augmented community string, such as “private.#”.
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