Re: MSTP MIB

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 10:46:45AM -0400, David B Harrington wrote:

> The IEEE 802.1 WG is developing a MIB module for MSTP. The latest
> revision is available at
> http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2005/ruzin-mstp-mib-02.txt
> 
> The changes from the previous revision are:
> 1) The syntax had been debugged (by both ucd-snmp and SNMPc).
> 2) The object mstpGenCfgIdDigest  has been added.
> 3) Some ideas from both malhotra-mstpmib-01and
> frattura-mstp-mib-0411.txt
> have been used
> 4) The explanations have been inserted (in the clause "3. Structure of
> MSTP-MIB").

Dave, can you advise them to use a decent MIB parser? I did run the
MIB module through libsmi and I was not really impressed. They seem
to mix SMIv2/SMIv1 syntax, they use data types not properly imported,
they have notifications referencing objects that are not-accessible
and so on. The point is not really to tell them what is broken and
why but to teach them that they better first check whether the tools
they use for syntax checking are actually appropriate.

/js

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