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