[SNMP4J] snmp4j vs. Westhawk

[Frank Fock]

Per,

Please find my comments linline below:

Per Cederberg wrote:
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>On tue, 2004-08-31 at 00:21, Frank Fock wrote:
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>>I have took a short look at your SMI parser which seems
>>one of the first open source SMI parsers. From the docs
>>I reviewed I am wondering whether the Mibble API can
>>handle multiple MIB modules in a file,
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>No, this is currently not possible. Haven't seen this
>myself so is it really according to standard? It might
>not be so hard to fix, but I haven't had anyone
>requesting this yet...
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Yes, multiple modules in a file are allowed by SMI.
I have seen a few vendors using a single file for all
their MIB modules for a specific agent.

>>and whether it
>>supports module scoping correctly (thus whether the API
>>can handle SMI modules correctly that reference two
>>objects with the same name from different MIB modules)?
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>Yes, if you mean refering to symbols by MODULE.SYMBOL
>inside the MIB file.
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Yes, that's what I meant. I did not see from the JavaDoc whether
a symbol name could include the "MODULE." prefix.

Cheers,
Frank