Re: Table idices

John Leonard <jleonard@mail1.wireless.tellabs.com> Thu, 27 March 1997 23:49 UTC

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David,

Thanks for your answer.

I immediately tracked down our department's copy of "Understanding SNMP
MIBs" (who is this "Perkins" guy anyways? I think somebody stole your
name), spent some time with it and will point out the suggested sections to
the person who asked me the question. Happily, we've all given the same
answer.

By the way, the book is great resource I hope you keep on writing,

Thanks Again,
John

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> From: David Perkins <dperkins@scruznet.com>
> To: SNMPv2 List <snmpv2@tis.com>; SNMP List <snmp@lists.psi.com>; John
Leonard <jleonard@mail1.wireless.tellabs.com>
> Subject: RE: Table idices 
> Date: Thursday, March 27, 1997 3:28 PM
> 
> John,
> 
> On your question below...
> On Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:01:18 -0500  John Leonard wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >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?
> >
> There is no such rule that states that the value of zero cannot be used.
> Also see page 106, and background pages 24-27, and 100-109 in
"Understanding
> SNMP MIBs" by Perkins and McGinnis.
> 
> Regards,
> /dperkins@scruznet.com, David T. Perkins
> Date: 03/27/97, Time: 12:28:02
>