Re: typos ???

Keith McCloghrie <kzm@hls.com> Mon, 17 May 1993 06:37 UTC

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From: Keith McCloghrie <kzm@hls.com>
Message-Id: <9305170636.AA06117@nms.hls.com>
Subject: Re: typos ???
To: Aleksey Y Romanov <ralex@world.std.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 93 23:36:18 PDT
Cc: snmp@psi.com, snmp2@thumper.bellcore.com
In-Reply-To: <199305121815.AA07864@world.std.com>; from "Aleksey Y Romanov" at May 12, 93 2:15 pm
Organization: Hughes LAN Systems
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> >From RFC 1443:
> 
>                                             STATE
>                  +--------------+
>                  |      A       |
>                  |              |
>                  |status column |
>        ACTION    |does not exist| 
>    --------------+--------------+
>       ...
>    --------------+--------------+
>    set any other |see 4         |
>    column to some|              |
>    value         |           ->A|
>    --------------+--------------+
> 
>                       (4) at the discretion of the agent, either noError
>                       or inconsistentValue may be returned.
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Should it be inconsistentName ?

Yes.  I believe you are correct.

> >From RFC 1447:
> 
>           viewMask OBJECT-TYPE
>               SYNTAX      OCTET STRING (SIZE (0..16))
>               ...         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>               DESCRIPTION
>                       "The bit mask which, in combination with the
>                            ^^^^^^^^
> 
> Should SYNTAX be a BIT STRING or everything is ok ?
 
The use of OCTET STRING is correct.   The SNMPv2 SMI allows only
enumerated BIT STRINGs, and this cannot be enumerated.

Keith.