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| | The Simple Times, Volume 4, Number 2, April, 1996 |
 | | Section 3.1.4 of the SMUX specification (RFC 1227) says that the SNMP agent should process each varbind in an incoming request sequentially, and block when a SMUX peer is contacted. |
 | | Having briefly examined SMUX and gained an appreciation of some of the basic features (and problems) of extensible agents, we can step back slightly in time to 1989 and examine another early extensible agent protocol, the SNMP Distributed Protocol Interface (DPI) version 1.0, which was specified in 1991 as RFC 1228. |
 | | Again as with SMUX, the SNMP agent was responsible for the interface with the management application, while the subagents were responsible for different subtrees of managed objects. |
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