14.2. Your Enterprise Number
Now that your interest is piqued, we'll build suspense by taking a little detour for those of you actually in the process of starting a small company to sell your appliance. You may remember the brief discussion about enterprise numbers in the last chapter when we were identifying a printer using SNMP. Every MIB needs to be anchored to the overall namespace, and if you are designing a private MIB, you need an enterprise number of your own. These are assigned by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). Each company or organization only needs one enterprise number because IANA grants you the authority to manage the tree beneath your number.
Obtaining an enterprise number from IANA may take awhile, so you should get ...
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