Re: [Mibble-users] Error parsing MIB NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB.txt

[Per Cederberg]

I've already got a fix for it, but have to address a few other things
before releasing version 2.9.alpha2.

Thanks for reporting and analyzing this issue!

/Per

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Karl Weber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  mibble2.8 reports an error parsing the MIB NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB.txt from the
>  net-snmp project.
>
>  The error message is:
>
>  Error: in ...../net-snmp-5.3.2/mibs/NET-SNMP-AGENT-MIB.txt: line 76:
>      unexpected token "::=", expected "}"
>
>     ::= { nsCache 1 }
>      ^
>
>  The content of the MIB around line 76 is:
>
>  nsCacheDefaultTimeout         OBJECT-TYPE
>      SYNTAX      INTEGER   -- ???
>      MAX-ACCESS  read-write
>      STATUS      current
>      DESCRIPTION
>        "Default cache timeout value (unless overridden
>         for a particular cache entry)."
>      DEFVAL { 5 --seconds-- }
>      ::= { nsCache 1 }
>
>  The error disappears if the comment "--seconds--" is removed.
>
>  Moving the comment out of the braced block also works, i.e. using
>
>   DEFVAL { 5 } -- seconds --
>
>  I am no ASN.1 expert, but for all I understand, the comment should be legal
>  ASN.1, so the error ought to be attributed to the parser, not the MIB.
>
>  Is this correct?
>
>  -Karl
>
>
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