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Re: [netmod] Question on intefaces-state model

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Wed, 14 June 2017 09:39 UTC

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Robert Wilton <rwilton@cisco.com>
Cc: Vladimir Vassilev <vladimir@transpacket.com>, Andy Bierman <andy@yumaworks.com>, "Bogaert, Bart (Nokia - BE/Antwerp)" <bart.bogaert@nokia.com>, "netmod@ietf.org" <netmod@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [netmod] Question on intefaces-state model
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:15:22AM +0100, Robert Wilton wrote:
> 
> Returning zero values here is not useful, in fact it is misleading. I think
> that if a server doesn't have a value to return for a particular node it is
> much better to return nothing than to return a false value.

+1.

It took us years to kill this attitude in SNMP land. Saying a counter
is zero and never changes is largely misleading if you actually have
no such counter. It is easy to waste hours of expensive engineering
time by given people fake counters.

/js

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