possible mib load bug

Peter Polkinghorne (Peter.Polkinghorne@brunel.ac.uk)
Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:46:49 +0000

While adding a whole lot of cisco mibs - from their version 2 directory, I had
problems with CISCO-IPMCAST-MIB.my - this has at the beginning:

-- Draft Cisco-Specific IP Multicast MIB July 1994

CISCO-IPMCAST-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
...
ciscoMcastMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
LAST-UPDATED "9407301359Z"
ORGANIZATION "Cisco System Inc."
CONTACT-INFO
" Cisco System Inc."
DESCRIPTION
"The MIB module for Cisco-specific management of IP
Multicast in Cisco devices."
::= { enterprises 9 10 4 }

this failed to load until changed to:
::= { ciscoExperiment 4 }

The error was that the ciscoMcastMIB oid was not defined and all the
subsequent definitions complained about absent parent node.

This is using scotty-2.1.4 under Solaris with tcl-7.5 - a quick check of the
archive indicates no mib browser problems fixed in 2.1.5 or this mib problem.
Of course it may be cisco have produced an illegal mib - but this seems
unlikely.

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