RE: Compressing Large Indices?

[Tim Jenkins <tjenkins@TimeStep.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baugher, Mark [mailto:mbaugher@passedge.com]
> Sent: January 24, 2000 1:12 PM
> To: 'Tim Jenkins'; mibs@psg.com
> Subject: RE: Compressing Large Indices?
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> Why not define the MIB to use integer indices?

We want the ability for the user to look up information based on things that
are meaningful to them: the IDs of the endpoints used in IKE negotiation.

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> Mark
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Based on a suggestion from Juergen Schoenwaelder, I think we can do it (less
directly, but still functionally) without the use of a hash. It requires the
creation of another table, however (effectively a table of the IDs that are
indexed arbitrarily; this index value then becomes an alias for the ID).

This may be more useful anyway, since the IDs are not always in a directly
usable form to the user.