RE: inet address mib issue

[Andrew Smith <andrew@extremenetworks.com>]

Mike,

I had the same issue with the Diffserv MIB that I'm hacking right now - I've
added an additional InetAddressType variable, as the immediately preceding
OID to the matching InetAddress variable, as required by the Textual
Convention instructions. 

For Address/Mask pairs though, Fred Baker pointed out that Masks are almost
universally contiguous and that a mask length was a more appropriate
solution. I don't know the details of your problem but the same answer may
help you too.

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Thatcher [mailto:thatcher@redback.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 2:05 PM
> To: mibs@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: inet address mib issue
> 
> 
> the description states that each object of InetAddress requires a
> corresponding object of InetAddressType.  This seems a little too
> restrictive when I want to define an address and a mask for 
> the address.
> Even though the mask will always have the same type as the 
> address, I'm
> still required to have another InetAddressType object for the mask.
> 
> miket
> 
>