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From: SURU@TWNMOE10.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: good book introducing OSI for novices
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:44:35 GMT
Organization: Ministry of Education, Computer Center NETNEWS system V2.3

Dear Netter,

    I am a user of TCP/IP and we'll have an connection to the OSI
world. Douglas Comer wrote a wonderful book introducing TCP/IP.
Is there any good book introducing OSI for novices. Thanks.

Regards,  --Liu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
From: brendan@us-es.sel.de (Dalton)
Subject: OSI conformance tests
Organization: SEL (Schwaebische Elektro-Laedle)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 17:34:41 GMT

Does anyone know where I might get information on
OSI conformance tests for ASN1 encoders/decoders.

If you have any information related to this, I'd
very much appreciate it.

-- 
Brendan Dalton (brendan@us-es.sel.de)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
From: john@citr.uq.oz.au (John Gottschalk)
Subject: Re: good book introducing OSI for novices
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 03:46:55 GMT

<SURU@TWNMOE10.BITNET> writes:

>Dear Netter,

>    I am a user of TCP/IP and we'll have an connection to the OSI
>world. Douglas Comer wrote a wonderful book introducing TCP/IP.
>Is there any good book introducing OSI for novices. Thanks.

The answer depends on clarifying your question. What part of OSI are
you interested in? For example, X.25? lower layer protocols? 
application layer protocols? any specific standard?


			-- regards, John Gottschalk

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     Brisbane, Queensland, Australia,
     +61 7 365 4321 (phone), +61 7 365 4399 (fax)
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
From: iann@tcom.stc.co.uk (Ian Newman)
Subject: ISO PICS proformas
Organization: BNR Europe, New Southgate, London.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 15:03:46 GMT

Does anyone where I can get hold of ISO PICS (Protocol Implementation
Conformance Statement) proformas, electronically?  I know I can get
paper copies form the ISO standards themselves, but I'd like to save myself
some typing by filling in an electronic version.

Regards,

Ian.
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
Subject: Re: OSI Failure? (MMS and TCP/IP)
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, California
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:56:27 GMT

In article <8FXVqB2w164w@Control.Com> ics.ralph@control.com writes:
>Reply to Don Provan regarding installed base of OSI:
>
>You obviously missed the point.

No, sir, you've missed my point.  I wasn't even commenting on your
point; i don't even know what MMS is.  If you don't see why your
argument about installed base is ironic, even if you think the argument
itself has merit, then you've completely lost your sense of humor.

As it happens, i don't agree with your position, either.  It's not
that i think OSI is useless.  It's just that i don't think it will be
used.
						don provan
						donp@novell.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
From: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
Subject: Re: Where can I find ASN.1 doc ?
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:15:27 GMT

mak@ee.tamu.edu (Albert Mak) writes:

>I seem to recall some discussions in this news group about ASN.1 documentation
>available electronically. Can someone remind me where I can get it?

ftp.uni-erlangen.de:pub/doc/ISO/english/ASN.1.*  (Postscript)
The Layman's Guide to ASN.1, RSA Inc.

>Also, are there any public domain ASN.1 compilers ?

Check ISODE 8.0, e.g. on ftp.psi.com.

Perhaps we really should write a list of FAQs with answers and post it monthly,
what do you think?

Markus

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From: mmn@dde.dk (Mikael Moller Nielsen;ulimit=1000000)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re: Connectionless Transport Protocol
Keywords: CLTP
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:35:03 GMT
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S

klaseen@erg.sri.com (Elin L. Klaseen) writes:

>Does anyone out there have an ISO transport stack that includes the 
>connectionless transport protocol (CLTP)? We currently are using the the 
>SunNet OSI stack on Suns, but so far this product does not include CLTP.
>Does anyone have or know of a CLTP running on any platform (486, HP, SGI, etc.)
>? If so, please contact me.

You can get (buy, that is) one from Retix. I'm not sure which features
they include in their various ports, but I'm quite sure that Retix does.

In 1985 (and probably also today) Retix' address was

   2644, 30th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90405-3009, USA
   Phone: (213) 399-2200 Fax: (213) 458-2685

Mikael

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From: jcm@mururoa.imag.fr (Jean-Christophe Martin(Echirolles))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso,comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ,eunet.europen
Subject: Virtual Terminal Protocol
Summary: VIRTUAL TERMINAL PROTOCOL
Keywords: VTP, virtual, ISO, terminal
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:25:13 GMT
Followup-To: comp.protocols.iso
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

hi,

I'm looking for a list of applications using the vt protocol, based on the ISODE
vt or any other origin.

I'm looking, also, for some informations about the RARE wg 5 wich is working
on vtp.

thanks.



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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
From: mak@ee.tamu.edu (Albert Mak)
Subject: Where can I find ASN.1 doc ?
Organization: Texas A&M University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:18:55 GMT

I seem to recall some discussions in this news group about ASN.1 documentation
available electronically. Can someone remind me where I can get it?

Also, are there any public domain ASN.1 compilers ?

Thanks in advance. I apologise if this is a FAQ.

Albert Mak
From: jira@latcs1.lat.oz.au (Ajin Jirachiefpattana)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: E-mail address of Giovanni Chiola.
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:39:23 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia

Hi Everybody,

Does anyone have the e-mail address of Giovanni Chiola who is the author
of GreatSPN Users'Manual Version 1.3, September 1987?

Many thanks,

Ajin Jirachiefpattana,
jira@latcs1.lat.oz.au

Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering,
La Trobe University,
Bundoora, Vic., 3083.
Australia.
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
From: pchan@mdd.comm.mot.com (Pat Chan)
Subject: Looking for documents..
Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 06:58:08 GMT


Where can I find OSI documents? Can I ftp from somewhere
in the net?

Actually I'm looking for the following documents, any kind
souls out there can help is much appreciated.

1) OSI - Systems Management Overview, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21 N 3294
2) OSI - Systems Management - Fault Management Working Draft, 
   ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21 N 3312
3) OSI - Systems Management - Performance Management Working Draft, 
   ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21 N 3313


Thanx

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From: dfauvarq@vulcain.France.Sun.COM (Daniel Fauvarque - Sun ICNC)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
Subject: Re:    good book introducing OSI for novices
Date: 8 Sep 1992 06:51:28 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dfauvarq@vulcain.France.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: vulcain.france.sun.com

THE OPEN BOOK (A Pratical Perpective on OSI) written by Marshall T.Rose is quite a 
good one.

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso
From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
Subject: Re: OSI == second system syndrome
Organization: NobelTech AB
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:36:03 GMT

In article <BtMtov.9xK@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn) writes:
>This is solved by OSI with the X.500 directory services in a very elegant
>way. Unfortunately, most people don't know about it and still worry
>about ugly mail adresses.
Oh. I haven't seen any actual X.500 implementation, but: 

-How will I get access to names of users at other sites

-Will I do interactive lookups over public X.25 in perhaps 2400bps ?

-Will my PTT, which thinks it owns x.400 allow me to talk to ANYBODY at all.

-How do I do store&forward mail, still using x.500 ?

Anybody have a clue ?

/Per
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From: mds@hpcndaw.CND.HP.COM (Mark Smith)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:13:31 GMT
Subject: Re:
Organization: HP Network and System Management Division
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso

Thanks to Bancroft Scott who sent me the following reply. I posted it
in case anyone else was interested.

Mark smith


>I'm trying to understand section 24.6 of ISO/IEC 8824:1990 regarding
>distinct identifiers.
>
>Given the following definitions:
>
>T1 ::= SEQUENCE {   X1,
>		  b BOOLEAN
>		}
>
>X1 ::= CHOICE { y INTEGER, z REAL }
>
>Would the identifiers for T1 be: y, z, b ??

No.  The only identifier for T1 is b, but y and z are visible to
T1 because X1 does not have an identifier.  In effect, this means
that when creating a value reference, you will not be able to
distinguish whether y and z were defined in T1 or in X1.  If you
were to define a component within X1 that has an identifier b, you
would get a complaint from a decent ASN.1 compiler to let you know
that you have duplicately defined identifiers.

What section 24.6 is saying can be rephrased to state that if a CHOICE
enclosed in a SET, SEQUENCE or CHOICE, does not have an identifier, its 
components must have identifiers different from those found in the enclosing
SET, SEQUENCE or CHOICE, and different from those found in any other CHOICE 
that has no identifier and lies within the enclosing SET, SEQUENCE or CHOICE.

I think you have the right interpretation of section 24.6, but your
question is not stated well.

>I'm assuming the same would be true if the actual CHOICE definition replaced
>the DefinedType X1.

Right.

>And to clarify, given the following variation on the definition:
>
>T2 ::= SEQUENCE { a X1, 
>                  b BOOLEAN
>                }
>
>Would the identifiers for T2 be: a, b ??

Yes.

>My assumption is that, if an identifier is specified for a reference to a
>CHOICE type, then 8824 24.6 does not apply.

Correct.


Bancroft Scott

ps: Note that effective with the 1993 issue of ASN.1, identifiers become
    mandatory on all components of SET, SEQUENCE and CHOICE.
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: chrisr@cix.compulink.co.uk (Chris Rose)
Subject: CMIP CMOT SNMP Manage
Reply-To: chrisr@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:34:00 +0000


In message Message-ID: <1992Sep9.165649.21551@desktalk.desktalk.com>
Ty Kostan(ty@desktalk.com) writes:

>CMIP (CMOT on IP)
CMIP Common Management Information Protocol I believe, and I thought
that CMIP was CM over TCP/IP, not the other way around.

Not muchly used for managging end devices, but does seem to be
gaining some degree of use for linking together diverse management
systems, a la the Network Management Forum's Omnipoint programme.

Chris R
From: chewcg@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Chye Guan CHEW)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:39:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Need help with DSS trap to HP Open View
Organization: HP Singapore Notes-Server
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp

Hi Carl,
      If you have the DSS MIB, you may want to load it into the HP OpenView
      NNM via the MIB loader.  This is provided that the trap format conforms 
      to the RFCs.  Hope that this helps.




chye guan
Singapore Networks Operation

Disclaimer: Not an official view from HP, but just my two cents worth of help.
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: lac@evolving.com (Leigh A. Culthbertson)
Subject: Need CMIP Information
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:55:11 GMT
Organization: Evolving Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Does anyone know how I can obtain detailed information on the CMIP protocol.
It is supposed to be the OSF beefed up variation of SNMP. Please mail
responses directly to me. I will summarize and post.

Tanks!
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: bob@jupiter.com (Bob Schulman)
Subject: ?Experience with CMU 2.0 SNMP (SMP) release?
Organization: Jupiter System, Alameda, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:01:45 GMT


Does anyone have experince with this package? Comments?

bob schulman
bob@jupiter.com
From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: Re: Need CMIP Information
Date: 12 Sep 92 13:23:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.protocols.iso
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC


  Neither CMIP nor CMOT postings belong here.  CMIP clearly belongs in
comp.protocols.iso since it is an ISO protocol.  This newsgroup is
only for SNMP postings.

  The newsgroup comp.protocols.iso is very low in volume so there is
plenty of bandwidth for any and all CMIP discussions to live there.
There is no point in creating comp.protocols.iso.cmip until there is
so much traffic that comp.protocols.iso is noisy.

  Note that neither CMOT nor CMIP are derived from SNMP.  However, all
three do use ASN.1 encoding of objects and many MIBs can be
manipulated by all three protocols.  SNMP is very widely implemented
in everything from toasters, to coke machines, to hosts, to routers,
to whatever.  Neither CMIP nor CMOT is widely used outside of Europe
and SNMP is more widely used in Europe than CMIP and CMOT combined.

Ran
atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: cwk@irrational.ssc.gov (Carl W. Kalbfleisch)
Subject: Re: Need help with DSS trap to HP Open View
Reply-To: cwk@irrational.ssc.gov
Organization: SSC Laboratory, Dallas, TX
	<1992Sep9.165925.21628@desktalk.desktalk.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:51:26 GMT

>>>>> On 9 Sep 92 16:59:25 GMT, ty@desktalk.com (Tyson M. Kostan) said:
In article <1992Sep9.165925.21628@desktalk.desktalk.com> ty@desktalk.com (Tyson M. Kostan) writes:

Tyson> Nntp-Posting-Host: sangabriel


Tyson> Carl,

Tyson> does OpenView have the MIB information on how to decode the TRAPs?  I havn't used 
Tyson> OpenView, but it sounds like the same thing that heppens in SunNet Manager.

The manual states that if there is no match in the MIB decode
for the exact enterprise, it strips the last field and tries again.
This should eventually fit to the default ENTERPRISE definition.  
That would imply that it would generate an event like:
"Enterprise Specific Trap ...."

Carl
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: shaub@cs.uwp.edu (Jeffery Shaub)
Subject: Is there a FAQ for this group??
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:06:43 GMT


I'm new to Network Management and would like to get our Net under control.

Is there a FAQ for this group or some RFC's that pertain to Network Management
that I could read before asking a lot of dumb questions.

Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: oldera@twg.com (Ed Alcoff -  Prod Mtg)
Subject: Re: secure snmp: too much bang for the buck?
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:21:38 GMT

Pls realize that SMP provides for a slight mod to
the Secure SNMP as spec'd in the RFCs.

Also, I disagree that a vendor should not support SETs
because of a lack of security.  Leave the security of
the net to the user- they can choose to use SETs or not
with an appropriate entry in a typical snmpd.conf (use
READ instead of READ-WRITE)

Also, SMP/Secure SNMP does not provide a perfectly secure
environment.  Due to possible export restrictions, some
vendors may choose not to implement encryption.  Also,
one cannot set the value of the life delay to 0 so that
one will be able to intercept the packet and retransmit
it from a rogue implementation.

So it's much better, but certainly not overkill.

Cheers,

/era
From: glen@Cayman.COM (Glen B. Glater)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: Is there a FAQ list?  Where is it?
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:30:40 GMT
Distribution: comp.protocols.snmp
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA

Is there a SNMP FAQ?  Where is it?  Can someone post it or email it to
me?

Thanks.

Glen
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From: ranen@shuldig.cs.huji.ac.il (Ranen Goren)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: announcing xmib1.0 (beta)
Keywords: snmp, mib, Motif
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:23:17 GMT
Organization: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


Announcing xmib 1.0 (beta ver.)

xmib is a MIB tree control panel for X, with Motif
interface. It allows set and get operations for
MIB variables. The current version of xmib
does not support table operations, but future versions will.

Location (for anonymous FTP)
	Host: ftp.huji.ac.il
	Dir:  /pub/network/snmp/
	File: xmib1.0b.tar.Z     
	Size: 50638 bytes

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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: ty@desktalk.com (Tyson M. Kostan)
Subject: Re: Need CMIP Information
Keywords: CMIP CMOT SNMP Manage
Reply-To: ty@desktalk.com
Organization: Desktalk Systems Inc.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:56:49 GMT

Leigh,

CMIP (CMOT on IP) is well described in the appropriate ISO documents and RFCs which
can be found on the NIC (anonymous FTP to nic.ddn.mil).  Although it may be considered
a "beefed up" variation of SNMP, it has not been widly implemented, and has in fact
been denounced by Internet-ers as trying to accomplish too much.  

My recommendation is to look more thuroughly at SMP (Marshall Rose's and Jeff Case's
upgrade to SNMP) which solves a lot of SNMP's problems, like bulk data transfers and
security issues.  It still uses ASN.1 (yuk!), as do CMOT and CMIP.

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From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: Re: CMU SNMP
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:43:12 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC

In article <18l2gsINNb8v@early-bird.think.com> ellozy@farber.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy) writes:

> The latest version of SNMP is 1.1b, which is very stable in spite of
> the beta label.  The is a new distribution of SMP, which is sometimes
> referred to as SNMP II.  I have no experience with it.

  CMU snmp2.0.tar.Z is available for anonymous ftp from
lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu (I think that is the right name).  It is
actually located in the SMP subdirectory and actually is an
implementation of the proposed SMP (which might well become the next
version of the Simple Network Management Protocol specification).
Support for using SMP to manage SNMP devices is included.
From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: Re: CMU SNMP
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:11:47
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.ksu.ksu.edu
In-reply-to: Kursat CAGILTAY's message of Tuesday, 8 Sep 1992 19:47:11 TUR

In article <92252.194711KURSAT@TRMETU.BITNET> Kursat CAGILTAY <KURSAT@TRMETU.BITNET> writes:

>What is the latest  version of CMU SNMP Package?

I don't know for sure, but I saw a reference to version 2.0 the other day.
I haven't gone and checked for myself to see if it actually exists though.

++Brett;
From: ellozy@farber.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: Re: CMU SNMP
Date: 9 Sep 1992 14:42:36 GMT
Organization: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: farber.harvard.edu
Originator: ellozy@farber


In article <BRTMAC.92Sep9001147@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>, brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:
  > In article <92252.194711KURSAT@TRMETU.BITNET> Kursat CAGILTAY <KURSAT@TRMETU.BITNET> writes:
  > 
  > >What is the latest  version of CMU SNMP Package?
  > 
  > I don't know for sure, but I saw a reference to version 2.0 the other day.
  > I haven't gone and checked for myself to see if it actually exists though.
  > 
  > ++Brett;

The latest version of SNMP is 1.1b, which is very stable in spite of the beta label.  The is a new distribution of SMP, which is sometimes referred to as SNMP II.  I have no experience with it.

The SNMP 1.1b distribution is stable, but has no support for MIB-II extensions, so its utility is rapidly decreasing.  A great pity, as it has some very useful tools.

Mohamed
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp
From: dan@gordian.com (Dan Lambright)
Subject: secure snmp: too much bang for the buck?
Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 21:38:08 GMT


I've been studying rfc 1352 (secure snmp) and am trying to
decide if its worth implementing.  We want to support snmp
sets, but up until 1352 came out it was too risky.  Now 
however,  I am starting to wonder if 1352 is overkill.  I
mean its got DAP, encryption, passwords, and synchronized
clocks.  Its secure allright,  but it sure is alot of overhead
for the little platform that I am writing snmp for. 
Has anyone out there had any experience with secure snmp?
How much code space did it take?  How much complexity did
it add to your platform?  And more in general,  what are
peoples opinions about the new security mechanisms outlined
in 1352?  

Dan Lambright
dan@gordian.com

Newsgroups: comp.protocols.snmp