Re: docsis subscriber mib

[Randy Presuhn <rpresuhn@dorothy.bmc.com>]

Hi -

> Message-ID: <7D5D48D2CAA3D84C813F5B154F43B155989CA2@nl0006exch001u.nl.lucent.com>
> From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>
> To: "Mreview (E-mail)" <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
> Subject: docsis subscriber mib
> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:45:47 +0100 
> 
> Does anyone see a problem with this:
> 
>    docsSubMgtCpeControlReset OBJECT-TYPE
>        SYNTAX  TruthValue
>        MAX-ACCESS read-write
>        STATUS  current
>        DESCRIPTION
>            "This object always returns false on read.  If this object is
>        set to true, the rows with  'learned' addresses in
>        docsSubMgtCpeIpTable for this CM are deleted from that table."
>        ::= { docsSubMgtCpeControlEntry 4 }
...

What happens when one writes a "false" into one of these?
Why is it necessary for the object to have two possible
values if only one is ever observed?

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