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Re: MIB comments 1

Steven Waldbusser <waldbusser+@cmu.edu> Mon, 31 January 1994 18:05 UTC

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From: Steven Waldbusser <waldbusser+@cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: MIB comments 1
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>Upon reflection, I believe that '0' is not used since it takes a
>finite tie to recognize that carrier has been lost. Also, I believe
>that it is more common to use '255' to disable this function,
>therefore I would propose that we drop the mdmLineCarrierLossControl
>object and use a value of '255' to disable.

Is 255 really in common usage?  Use of zero seems much cleaner design.
For example, should a reason emerge for making these times greater
than ~4 minutes, we would have a distinguished value in the middle of
the range.

If there are implementations that use 255, the agent can always
translate before placing the value in the S-register.


Steve

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