SNMPSET illusion?

Hi all,

I have the following MIB node in my MIB

cdsprAlcActivity OBJECT-TYPE
        SYNTAX INTEGER
        {

                                alc-on ( 1 ),
                                alc-off ( 2 )
        }
        ACCESS  read-write
        STATUS  mandatory
        DESCRIPTION
        "Use regulated or fixed output power
  1 - ALC on
  2 - ALC off"
        ::= { alc 1}


The agent should accept only the following two snmpset  requests
snmpset  -c private -v2c localhost REPEATER-MIB::cdsprAlcActivity.0 i 1
snmpset  -c private -v2c localhost REPEATER-MIB::cdsprAlcActivity.0 i 2

But I have a peculiar problem, when I set values to other than 0 and
1, it responds this way. For example:
snmpset  -c private -v2c localhost REPEATER-MIB::cdsprAlcActivity.0 i 100
REPEATER-MIB::cdsprAlcActivity.0 = INTEGER: 100

Interestingly when I do snmpget it gives me the correct value(which
was originally set  to value 2 before the above snmpset)
snmpget  -c private -v2c localhost XM-RADIO-REPEATER-MIB::cdsprAlcActivity.0
REPEATER-MIB::cdsprAlcActivity.0 = INTEGER: alc-off(2)

For invalid snmpset values instead of complaining that the value is
out of bounds - it shows as if the value has been set even for out of
bounds value - although in reality the value has not been changed/set
creating an illusion - instead of complaining - why???

Ofcourse snmpset works fine for values 1 and 0, which was validated
with snmpget requests.

With regards,

Raghavendra

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