Re: [libsmi] smidump --format=smiv2 output contains some errors in compliance SYNTAX/WRITE-SYNTAX clauses.

28 Mar 2011


      Jens Engel wrote:
...
Hello,
I just stumbled over the following problem in libsmi 0.4.8 and development trunk-tip rev34557 (as of today).
This must have existed at rev16122 because I can demonstrate it with
that version.
...
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)
If you dump BRIDGE-MIB as v1 that clause appears as:
--         OBJECT  dot1dStpPriority
--         SYNTAX  (null) (0 | 4096 | 8192 | 12288 | 16384 | 20480 |
                    24576 | 28672 | 32768 | 36864 | 40960 | 45056 |
                    49152 | 53248 | 57344 | 61440)
only the first line is commented.
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Re: [libsmi] smidump --format=smiv2 output contains some errors in compliance SYNTAX/WRITE-SYNTAX clauses.

Andrew Hood