Network Working Group S. Hares
Request for Comments: 1574 Merit/NSFNET
Obsoletes: 1139 C. Wittbrodt
Category: Informational Stanford University/BARRNet
February 1994
Essential Tools for the OSI Internet
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This document specifies the following three necessary tools to debug
problems in the deployment and maintenance of networks using ISO 8473
(CLNP):
- ping or OSI Echo function
- traceroute function which uses the OSI Echo function
- routing table dump function
These CLNS tools are the basics required for hosts and routers for
CLNS network support. It is intended that this document specify the
most basic support level required for CLNS hosts and routers.
To support some of the needed tools (ping and traceroute) this memo
specifies the mechanism specified in RFC 1575 [3].
Table of Contents
Section 1. Conventions ....................................... 2
Section 2. Introduction ...................................... 2
Section 3. Specification ..................................... 2
Section 3.1 Ping ............................................. 3
Section 3.1.1 Protocol Support ............................... 3
Section 3.1.2 Functions supported by the ping utility ........ 3
Section 3.2 Traceroute ....................................... 3
Section 3.2.1 Basic Traceroute ............................... 4
Section 3.2.2 Use of Partial Source route in traceroute ...... 5
Section 3.2.3 Information needed from a Traceroute utility ... 6
Section 3.3 OSI routing table dump ........................... 6
Section 3.4 MIB variables available via SNMP ................. 7
Section 3.4.1 Summary of MIB Variables ....................... 8
Section 3.4.2 ASN.1 Syntax for these MIB variables ........... 8
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