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Complaint about the MIB files shipped with the products

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Subject: Complaint about the MIB files shipped with the products
From: Chris Cowan <chris.cowan@2ND-WAVE.COM>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:49:54 -0500
I found several MIBs (rfc MIBs no less!) shipped with the NT platform,
that have comment syntax problems, and won't load.

In particular, they contain sections of ASN which were improperly
commented out.   The problem basically
is that someone block commented lines out which already contained
comments.
An example of this is:

--
--            --  This is a comment
--

(Unfortunately, a second set of -- closes the comment!)

I wish that IBM would either:
- Test the things before they ship them and format them correctly
- Or fix the MIB compiler so that it was tolerant of this case

At least for the MIBs you ship with the product!


Actually, I wish xnmloadmib did the loading and also the mib2trap piece,
as well.

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