Re: Table idices

Bob Stewart <bstewart@cisco.com> Thu, 27 March 1997 19:33 UTC

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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:26:28 -0500
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Circa 1:01 PM -0500 3/27/97, John Leonard bitwhacked:
>Is there any SNMP or SNMPv2 RFC that comes out and states that INTEGER
>table indices can't take the value 0? I know that there is a *very* strong
>convention that they not use 0, but is this actually forbidden?

Zero is a legitimate table index.  It is typically avoided for the
"arbitrary integer index" so it can be used for other purposes, such as in
a reference to indicate no index is set or applies.

	Bob

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