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mhite_60883
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Nov 30, 2012

'Ephemeral' in SNMP MIB descriptions

Would someone mind explaining what 'ephemeral' means in the context of these SNMP MIB items:     ltmVirtualServStatEphemeralPktsIn OBJECT-TYPE   SYNTAX Counter64   MAX-ACCESS read-only...
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What_Lies_Bene1's avatar
What_Lies_Bene1
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Nov 30, 2012
Ephemeral normally refers to the source port used by a TCP client to connect to a server. Here's a Wikipedia link; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_port. I'm not sure how this relates to SNMP and the items above, it's rather confusing to be honest.