RE: Table idices

David Perkins <dperkins@scruznet.com> Thu, 27 March 1997 20:37 UTC

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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:28:01 -0800
From: David Perkins <dperkins@scruznet.com>
Subject: RE: Table idices
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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