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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wade S. Schofield, Huntsville, AL (US);
W. Stuart Venters, Huntsville, AL (US);
Philip David Williams, Madison, AL (US);
Assignee:
Adtran, Inc., Huntsville, AL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/02 ;
Abstract
A simple network management protocol (SNMP) agent is distributed among individual channel units of frame relay switching system, rather than in a proxy device. The SNMP agent is implemented by encoding the identity of an individual channel device for whom a data packet is intended in the community data string portion of an SNMP packet. For a read request, the address of a channel unit is encoded as an augmented community string, such as “public.#”. For a write request, the address is encoded as an augmented community string, such as “private.#”.