This version of the Fore TA uses the addressing scheme defined by Fore's proprietary SPANS signalling protocol in order to determine the ATM address of a managed switch. Other addressing schemes as well as end system addresses are beyond the scope of the TA's mapping rules. However, Fore switches support both private and public ATM addressing schemes, making it possible to incorporate other forms of network node addressing in future versions of the TA.
The following address types are supported by Fore's management information base: