On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 17:33 -0800, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:00:00 +0100, Magnus Fromreide 
> >>>>> <ma...@lysator.liu.se> said:
> 
> >> a) start at .1
> >> pros: will show all available objects
> >> cons: will show all available objects
> 
> MF> I think I prefer a slight variation on this one if it is chosen:
>   
> MF> start at . as opposed to .1.
> 
> I'm not sure you can do that.  I'd actually have to go look through the
> SNMP and BER docs to figure out whether a zero-length OID is legal in
> both of them.

Given that BER encodes the first two digits in one octet I suspect you
can't do .1 either.

> (if you specify just . to our tools now you'll find that it'll actually
> do .1).
> 
> Though snmpwalk could be smarter and start from .0 and do getnexts to
> infinity, but that's a different subject.

Yes, but that is what I would expect in this case, and certainly in
the . case.

/MF


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