RFC 1906 (rfc1906) - Page 1 of 13

Transport Mappings for Version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)

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