Thanks for the clarification, David.
You are quite correct - I was thinking/talking in terms of
the full OID of an entry in a table (i.e. a column instance).
And specifically one indexed by a single integer.
The final subidentifier of the OID of a MIB definition cannot
be 0, regardless of whether
HI,
Let me be stronger in response than Dave Shield.
See inline below.
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Dave Shield wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > But are _all_ OIDs that end in
> >0 scalars? Is that just a convention or is it a contraint imposed by
> >SNMP or an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But are _all_ OIDs that end in
>0 scalars? Is that just a convention or is it a contraint imposed by
>SNMP or an unavoidable outcome of how OIDs are generated and handled?
>
>
It's a convention.
There's nothing to say that you *can
I know that, for example, ifIndex is 1-based so you have rows in
interfaces that are numbered starting with 1. And many OIDs that end in
0 are scalars (e.g., system.sysDescr.0). But are _all_ OIDs that end in
0 scalars? Is that just a convention or is it a contraint imposed by
SNMP or an unavoid
