[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I have been playing around with some of the debug settings etc. in the perl
> script (for the SNMP.pm module) and it appears that the source code in
> parse.c (used to build the snmp.dll loaded and used by the perl script)
> does not recognise FLOAT, DOUBLE or REAL as valid ASN1 types (even though
> REAL is supported, and FLOAT and DOUBLE are defined in the ASN1 definitions
> header file).
> 
> Any comments?
> 

Standard SNMP SMI uses an adapted sub-set of ASN.1 for MIB definition...these
types are not legal for standard implementations...

There is some precedence for using OPAQUE... (oops...you said not to tell you
about existing drafts and tools for using OPAQUE for floating point applications
so I won't :)

-G



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