Re: Question on BITS from SNMPv2-SMI

[rpresuhn-lists@dorothy.bmc.com]

Hi -

> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:53:23 -0400
> From: Joan Cucchiara <jcucchia@CrescentNetworks.com>
> To: mibs@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Question on BITS from SNMPv2-SMI
..
> Does the BITS type needs to be IMPORTED
> from SNMPv2-SMI?

No.  RFC 2578 in clause 3.2 specifically states that
BITS must not be present in the IMPORTS construct.

> I do not see this imported in some of the standard MIBs
> (e.g. RFC2665 (EtherLike-MIB) and RFC2558 (SONET-MIB))
> but one of the MIB compilers I'm using is flagging this
> as an error, but seems to pass through a different
> MIB compiler with no problem.
..

The compiler that flags it as an error is in error.

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