snmptranslate - range checking faulty?

Hi

Having an internal (MY-INTERNAL-MIB) and a customer module 
(MY-CUSTOMER-MIB), both defining a "hwNetEthIndex" object. 
"MY-CUSTOMER-MIB" defining range (0..1) for this object and 
"MY-INTERNAL-MIB" defining range (0..2).

I wonder about how the following output (snmptranslate v5.7.2 under 
Ubuntu 14.04) can be true (range of hwNetEthIndex element is defined as 
(0..1), and yet snmptranslate gives an answer for hwNetEthIndex.2 - 
instead of saying "Unknown Object Identifier (Index out of range: 2 
(hwNetEthIndex)))":

snmptranslate -m ALL MY-CUSTOMER-MIB::hwNetEthIndex.2 -On -Td

.1.3.6.1.4.1.1024.50.1.5.2.1.1.1.2
hwNetEthIndex OBJECT-TYPE
   -- FROM    MY-CUSTOMER-MIB
   SYNTAX    Integer32 (0..1)
   MAX-ACCESS    not-accessible
   STATUS    current
   DESCRIPTION    "Entry index of table"
::= { iso(1) org(3) dod(6) internet(1) private(4) enterprises(1) 
internal(1024) dt50(50) base(1) hardware(5) hwNetwork(2) 
hwNetEthernetTable(1) hwNetEthernetTableEntry(1) hwNetEthIndex(1) 2 }

When using snmptranslate (v5.7.3) on an openwrt device, I experience a 
different problem:

snmptranslate -m ALL MY-INTERNAL-MIB::hwNetEthIndex.2 -On -Td
MY-INTERNAL-MIB::hwNetEthIndex.2: Unknown Object Identifier (Index out 
of range: 2 (hwNetEthIndex))

allthough the definition of MY-INTERNAL-MIB::hwNetEthIndex looks like this:
hwNetEthIndex OBJECT-TYPE
   -- FROM    MY-INTERNAL-MIB
   SYNTAX    Integer32 (0..2)
   MAX-ACCESS    not-accessible
   STATUS    current
   DESCRIPTION    "Entry index of table"

Looks like snmptranslate is using the definition of the first found 
module having object "hwNetEthIndex" (which in my case is 
MY-CUSTOMER-MIB) for range checking - even if I provide the OID 
<module>::<element>!?

Is this as it should be - or is this a bug?

Regards
Phil

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