The interconnection status of the port. This object tells whether the port is connected to a host or to an interconnect (defined to be another NMM or a bridge that is sending hello messages). The values are: other(1)..........unknown or host interconnect(2)...identified as interconnect port The NMM agent will assign this object the value other(1) on initialization. If it sees hello messages coming in on the port, it will change the interconnection status to be interconnect(2).