Re: MIB lint web page available

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> Bill Fenner writes:

Bill>   I'm a relative latecomer into the SNMP game; I've only been
Bill> seriously interested for about 2 years.  Since the INTEGER ->
Bill> Integer32 evolution is only documented in now-obsolete
Bill> documents, and RFC 2578 only says that INTEGER and Integer32 are
Bill> indistinguishable and does not say that one is preferred, I have
Bill> to guess about history.

I guess there is some confusion here. INTEGER and Integer32 are indeed
indistinguishable as far as the on the wire representation is
concered. They are also semantically equivalent, except that you can
use INTEGER for enumerations but not Integer32. And for this reason
(and general clarity), I consider it good style to use INTEGER only
for enumerations and Integer32 only in all other cases. But this is of
course something others may not agree on (and luckily, smilint allows
you to turn these stylistic warnings off if you disagree).

/js

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