I acknowledge that the "Tnm::mib defval" command is not even documented,
so I cannot really expect it to be fully implemented.
Nevertheless, it has been very useful to me, but today I discovered that I
had not thought it all through. The problem is: How do one distinguish,
using this command on an OCTET STRING typed object, between "no default
value" and "default value = ''H"? Until now, I have stupidly just used
the "string length = 0" of the output of "Tnm::mib defval" to mean "no
DEFVAL". But this fails, of course, when the DEFVAL is ''H. And there are
a fair amount of those in the newer std MIBs, in the SNMP-VACM MIB for
instance.
I have looked into the code in tnmMibTcl.c, it really looks as if it
returns the same value (i.e. an empty string) in both cases.
best regards
--peder chr.
Peder Chr. Nørgaard System Developer, M. Sc.
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