RE: SMIv2 Doubt

["Harrington, David" <dbh@enterasys.com>]

Hi,

I don't have the RFCs in front of me, so I may misstate something, ...

The INDEX clause is required. It provides the necessary addressing
construct for the SNMP protocol to reference the data instances in the
table. 

Dbh
David Harrington            
dbh@enterasys.com
co-chair, IETF SNMPv3 WG


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharninder Singh-662 
> [mailto:Sharninder.Singh-662@ushacomm.co.in] 
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:37 PM
> To: mib
> Subject: SMIv2 Doubt
> 
> 
> hi all,
> i have written an MIB in SMIv2. I have a table in it and am 
> not using the
> INDEX clause in it. the snmptranslate utility in net-snmp 
> package shows the
> tree to be fine. is the INDEX clause necessary .. what is its 
> use ? the
> definition in the rfc was a bit vague ?
> 
> 
> regards
> sharninder
> 
>