Hello,
I just stumbled over the following problem in libsmi 0.4.8 and development trunk-tip rev34557 (as of today). The problem resides in the SYNTAX/WRITE-SYNTAX clauses in COMPLIANCE statements. Instead of a "type" the invalid term "(null)" is present.
AFFECTED-MIBS (at least): - BRIDGE-MIB - SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB - ... => grep "(null)" *-MIB
EXAMPLE: smidump --format=smiv2 BRIDGE-MIB ... OBJECT dot1dStpPriority SYNTAX (null) (0 | 4096 | 8192 | 12288 | 16384 | 20480 | 24576 | 28672 | 32768 | 36864 | 40960 | 45056 | 49152 | 53248 | 57344 | 61440) ... OBJECT dot1dStpPortPriority SYNTAX (null) (0 | 16 | 32 | 48 | 64 | 80 | 96 | 112 | 128 | 144 | 160 | 176 | 192 | 208 | 224 | 240)
BUT: Original BRIDGE-MIB that is distributed w/ libsmi contains: OBJECT dot1dStpPriority SYNTAX Integer32 (0 | 4096 | 8192 | 12288 | 16384 | 20480 | 24576 | 28672 | 32768 | 36864 | 40960 | 45056 | 49152 | 53248 | 57344 | 61440) ... OBJECT dot1dStpPortPriority SYNTAX Integer32 (0 | 16 | 32 | 48 | 64 | 80 | 96 | 112 | 128 | 144 | 160 | 176 | 192 | 208 | 224 | 240)
smidump --format=smiv2 SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB ... OBJECT vacmViewTreeFamilyMask WRITE-SYNTAX (null) (SIZE(0)) ...
SHOULD-BE (as in original MIB distributed with libsmi): ... OBJECT vacmViewTreeFamilyMask WRITE-SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE(0))
I assume that smidump does not have the info (only a NULL pointer) and just dumps it as textual info. NOTE: "smidiff <ORIGINAL-MIB> <SMIDUMPED-MIB>" does not seem to show a difference (except warnings, ...).
Ciao, Jens