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In article vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
>
>Ironically, some in ANSI X3T9.5 justified much of the SMT frame based
>stuff on the grounds that most stations and concentrators could not
>afford TCP or TP4 stacks and so could not use SNMP or CMOT.  The
>company that pushed that view hardest was in the business of selling
>SMT implementations to other vendors.  Most ironically, that company
>was soon seen at test beds with SNMP managed products.

One argument that ANSI committee brought up was that they "needed"
management for FDDI ring and no one could decide that if a station
would implement SNMP or CMOT or both.  Therefore, SMT frames are 
"needed".  But then again, if the network manager did not brother to
install SNMP for network management, then he probably didn't care
about management or did not know about it.  So ... what good is to 
having SMT frames running around?  Well you can get a pretty ring map.

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