RE: More error-status codes on SNMPv1?

[Bob Natale <bnatale at acecomm.com>]

At 3/31/2000:08:49 AM, Beecher Adams wrote:

Hi,

This thread belongs on snmpv3 at lists.tislabs.com and probably
not on ietf at ietf.org.  Moreover, I haven't been following
this thread real closely and I'm not sure who owns the
following quoted material but:

>The normal use of error-index is to indicate which varbind may have been the
>source of the error.  I suspect many agents don't get this fancy though and
>don't make use of the field.

Very wrong.  Only a very broken agent would not use the
error-index field to point to the varbind for which an
error-status is being returned.

>I'm proposing to use this field instead as an index to an error details table.

This is a non-starter due to error in your
suspicion above.

Cordially,

BobN
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