Re: Various DECnet MIB questions & Adjacency index

[EMA - we manage almost anything! <[e-mail]>]

    Yes, by all means, use circuit index. That's consistent with "common
    practice" in all the mibs.

    But... Using a variable length string does work in SNMP, the necessary
    pieces are there. And it does not have to be the last index in the list
    (there's a count up front that tells you where the string ends). Bob
    pointed out the "problem", Lexigraphic ordering orders variable length
    strings first by length and then alphabetically. That's not intuitive.

    						Mark

    PS: (-: Just to put those complaints about how hard it is to code for
            string indices in perspective; The NICE protocol uses variable
            length strings as "indices" for circuits, and it works quite nicely
            (sic).  There was an agent for RT-11 that ran on a 64Kbyte machine.
            :-)