Re: MIB load problem

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@cs.utwente.nl)
Mon, 26 Aug 1996 20:17:23 +0200

jsong@nlc.com (James Song) wrote:

> I just switched to scotty-2.0.2 and tkined-1.3.4. Scotty prints out a
> warning in loading mib files. The warning is as follows:
>
> tel.my:20: Warning: unknown syntax "OctetString"
>
> The line in the mib file is:
>
> IsdnCountString ::= OctetString (8)
>
> There was no problem when scotty-1.2.0 and tkined-1.2.0 were used. I wonder
> what has been changed and how I can handle the problem.

The type OctetString is not defined in any of the default MIB modules.
Perhaps you want to refer to the OCTET STRING base type. Change the
line to

IsdnCountString ::= OCTET STRING (SIZE (8))

(assuming the 8 is the length of the OCTET STRING).

Juergen