Hi, I always thought that for each OID there can only be one textual identifier. Now I came across this FAQ: http://www.oid-info.com/faq.htm#iri Under question 28 the following is written:
Just as an OID node can have multiple identifiers in ASN.1 notation, it can have multiple Unicode labels (this allows backwards-compatibility when a company changes its name, for example). If I understand that right it means that an OID could have multiple textual identifiers? E.g.: iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.99999 is defined in COMPANY-MIB-1 as companName and iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.99999 is defined in COMPANY-MIB-2 as newCompanName The two MIBs could then be loaded at the same time without causing any clashes, and a walk on iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.companName and iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.newCompanName would return the same results? Would IANA need to be notified about the change of the textual identifier (in case of an enterprise OID)? I have created two MIBs as in the example above and with net-snmp I can use either textual OID for a walk without any problems. I have also tested the MIB with smilint while preloading the second MIB and no errors were returned. So are multiple identifiers allowed for one OID? Thanks in advance, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
