Re: MTA MIB draft06 - pktcMtaDevProvKerbRealmName - objec t SYNTAX - AD Comment 31

Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> Not sure where you are with this, but... see inline
[...]
>>>>Proposed New MIB object def:
>>>>pktcMtaDevProvKerbRealmName  OBJECT-TYPE
>>>>      SYNTAX      SnmpAdminString (SIZE(1..255))
>>>>      MAX-ACCESS  read-only
>>>>      STATUS      current
>>>>      DESCRIPTION
>>>>          " This object contains the name of the associated
>>>>            provisioning Kerberos realm acquired during the MTA4
>>>>            provisioning step (DHCP Ack) for SNMPv3 provisioning.
>>>>            This object value is used as an index into the
>>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>            pktcMtaDevRealmTable.
>>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Isn't pktcMtaDevRealmTable now indexed with 
>>pktcMtaDevRealmIndex instead??
>>
> 
> I hope the last sentence is true.
> Because usning an SnmpAdminString that can be up to 255 octets
> is problematic because an OID (including the index) can not
> be more than 128 subIDs

Eugene already agreed to remove the sentence "This object value is used 
as an index into the pktcMtaDevRealmTable." from the 
pktcMtaDevProvKerbRealmName DESCRIPTION. Looks like a leftover from the 
initial CableLabs version of PKTC-MTA-MIB.


+Thomas

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Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de)