HI, OK. that might be a silly question for gurus. But still an answer from the SMI guru deserves much more than 25$ and which i can't afford.
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-----Original Message----- From: David T. Perkins [mailto:dperkins@dsperkins.com] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 12:27 AM To: Vinoth Palaniappan Cc: libsmi@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Subject: RE: [libsmi] specifying OID value
HI,
When you say
test-var9 OBJECT-TYPE ... ::= { testObjectIdentity(1) 1 } the OID value is { 1 1 }
When you say
test-var9 OBJECT-TYPE ... ::= { testObjectIdentity 1 } the OID value is { <the_oid_value_of_testObjectIdentity> 1 }
This is "standard ASN.1".
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At 10:53 PM 12/26/2002 +0530, Vinoth Palaniappan wrote:
HI David, My intention was to specify an oid value for the mib variable 'test-var9': <oid-value for testObjectIdentity>.1 . For example, if testObjectIdentity's oid-value is x.x.x, where x is a
non-negative integer
then test-var9's oid-value should be x.x.x.1 . But it seems
test-var9 is
given an oid-value of 1.1. Am i right?
-Vinoth iDEN OMC Software, Motorola
-----Original Message----- From: David T. Perkins [mailto:dperkins@dsperkins.com] Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 10:56 PM To: Frank Strauss; Vinoth Palaniappan Cc: libsmi@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Subject: Re: [libsmi] specifying OID value
HI,
Frank - it is perfectly legal to specify "{
testObjectIdentity(1) 1 }"
for the OID value. And the result is the OID value of { 1 1 } Of course, this is probably not the desired result.
At 02:08 PM 12/26/2002 +0100, Frank Strauss wrote:
Hi!
Vinoth> I wrote a small mib module and tested with libsmi. I Vinoth> encountered a problem and would like to know what i am Vinoth> missing.
Vinoth> testObjectIdentity OBJECT-IDENTITY [...] Vinoth> ::= { cMIB 1 } Vinoth> test-var9 OBJECT-TYPE [...] Vinoth> ::= { testObjectIdentity(1) 1 } --LINE NUMBER 51
Vinoth> I ran the command " smidump -l 5 -f smiv2 E-MIB " and
got error:
Vinoth> "E-MIB:51: an object named `testObjectIdentity'
already exists
Vinoth> smidump: module `E-MIB' contains errors, expect
flawed output"
Vinoth> If i change the line number 51 to ::= {
testObjectIdentity 1 }
Vinoth> , i don't get any error. What is wrong in line number 51?
The OID value of testObjectIdentity is already defined by the
OBJECT-IDENTITY
construct. The "(1)" in "{ testObjectIdentity(1) 1 }" does
not make sense.
What meaning would you expect? A redundant repitition of
the fact that
the last sub-oid of testObjectIdentity is "1"? Or a redefinition of testObjectIdentity to the one-digit OID value "1" and the
defintion of
test-var9 to "1.1"?
Your change to "{ testObjectIdentity 1 }" is (syntactically)
correct and
defines the value of test-var9 to "testObjectIdentity.1" ==
"cMIB.1.1".
-frank
Regards, /david t. perkins