Help on snmpv2-tc

Hung-Fa Sun <sunh@e0sun3.ccl.itri.org.tw> Mon, 03 May 1993 14:09 UTC

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From: Hung-Fa Sun <sunh@e0sun3.ccl.itri.org.tw>
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Subject: Help on snmpv2-tc
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 22:09:30 +0800 (WST)
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On page 4 of "Textual Conventions for SNMPv2 (Mar,93)",

TEXTUAL-CONVENTION MACRO ::=
  BEGIN
    TYPE NOTATION ::=
       DisplayPart
       "STATUS" Status
       "DESCRIPTION" Text
       ReferPart
       "SYNTAX" type(Syntax)
    VALUE NOTATION ::=
       value(VALUE Syntax)
     
     ......

  END


QUESTION: Why it is 
--------
          PhysAddress ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
              DISPLAY-HINT "1x:"
              STATUS       current
              DESCRIPTION "Represents media- or physical-level addresses."
              SYNTAX       OCTET STRING

          not

			 PhysAddress TEXTUAL-CONVENTION 
				  DISPLAY-HINT "1x:"
				  STATUS       current
				  DESCRIPTION "Represents media- or physical-level addresses."
          ::= OCTET STRING

			 I can easy understand that the latter case as 
			 "PhyAddress" equvilent to "OCTET STRING", 
			 what means the former case ?


Thanks for any clarifications in advance.

-- 
Frank Hung-Fa Sun
Computer & Comm. Research Lab. /ITRI
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