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SNMP over IPX

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Network Working Group                                         R. Wormley
Request for Comments: 1298                                    S. Bostock
                                                            Novell, Inc.
                                                           February 1992


                             SNMP over IPX

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard.  Distribution of this memo is
   unlimited.

Abstract

   This memo defines a convention for encapsulating Simple Network
   Management Protocol (SNMP) [1] packets over the transport mechanism
   provided via the Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) protocol [2].

Editor's Note

   As stated below and in reference [5], it is strongly advised that for
   interoperability, SNMP be implemented over UDP/IP and not directly on
   media or other protocols (such as IPX).

1.  Introduction

   The SNMP protocol has been specified as the official network
   management protocol of the Internet.  Its widespread acceptance and
   implementation by developers, both inside and outside the Internet
   community, is fostering synergetic growth to a variety of protocols
   and platforms.

   This memo addresses the use of SNMP over the IPX protocol, which has
   become quite widespread principally due to the popularity of Novell
   NetWare.  Roughly equivalent to UDP in function, IPX provides
   connectionless, unacknowledged datagram service over a variety of
   physical media and protocols.

   Although modifications have been made elsewhere in the NetWare
   protocol suite, IPX is identical to the Xerox Internet Datagram
   Protocol (IDP) [3].  The socket address space authority is
   administered by Novell.

   The use of SNMP over the UDP transport [4] is today the common mode
   of operation in the Internet. This specification may be appropriate
   for some environments in which UDP transport services are not



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