Re: DECnet MIB question (3) -- adjacency

[Debasis Dalapati <[e-mail]>]

>
> [e-mail] (John A. Shriver) wrote:
>
>The reality of the DECnet specification is that there is an index into
>the adjacency array.  However, it is just an arbitrary number in the
>range 1 to NC+NR+NBEA, which probably is sparsely populated.  Using
>this index is fine, jsut so long as it is unique for each adjacency.
>
>If your database is based on the DEC spec, this index is much easier
>to manilute than a double-index of circuit and node address.  It's
>going to run faster in the router, which can be an issue in SNMP.
>
>All that most agents do with tables like this is grovel through them
>with a get next anyways, so the index is relatively moot...
>
>

John,

I am writing an agent and just trying to figure out what should a get-next
mean for adjacency table. 
I feel comfortable in knowing the existence of such agents and I am also
getting a sense of what I can get away with in my design of the agent :-) 

debasis