RFC 1906 (rfc1906) - Page 1 of 13
Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
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Network Working Group SNMPv2 Working Group
Request for Comments: 1906 J. Case
Obsoletes: 1449 SNMP Research, Inc.
Category: Standards Track K. McCloghrie
Cisco Systems, Inc.
M. Rose
Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
S. Waldbusser
International Network Services
January 1996
Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ................................................ 2
1.1 A Note on Terminology ...................................... 2
2. Definitions ................................................. 3
3. SNMPv2 over UDP ............................................. 5
3.1 Serialization .............................................. 5
3.2 Well-known Values .......................................... 5
4. SNMPv2 over OSI ............................................. 6
4.1 Serialization .............................................. 6
4.2 Well-known Values .......................................... 6
5. SNMPv2 over DDP ............................................. 6
5.1 Serialization .............................................. 6
5.2 Well-known Values .......................................... 6
5.3 Discussion of AppleTalk Addressing ......................... 7
5.3.1 How to Acquire NBP names ................................. 8
5.3.2 When to Turn NBP names into DDP addresses ................ 8
5.3.3 How to Turn NBP names into DDP addresses ................. 8
5.3.4 What if NBP is broken .................................... 9
6. SNMPv2 over IPX ............................................. 9
6.1 Serialization .............................................. 9
6.2 Well-known Values .......................................... 9
7. Proxy to SNMPv1 ............................................. 10
8. Serialization using the Basic Encoding Rules ................ 10
8.1 Usage Example .............................................. 11
SNMPv2 Working Group Standards Track