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mhite_60883
Cirrocumulus
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...
What_Lies_Bene1
Cirrostratus
Nov 30, 2012Ephemeral 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.
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