Re: [Mibble-users] Unable to load MIB file

[Per Cederberg]

Hi,

You cannot have the same symbol name appear twice in a single
MIB file. If other MIB parsers accept this, they are buggy and
should be fixed. At least one cannot trust their results in
this case, as they are liable to mix up the two symbols.

The correct way to write a MIB is to use different names for
the symbols. Usually a short prefix is added to each variable,
like this:

table1entry
  t1serialnumber
  t1name
table2entry
  t2serialnumber
  t2name

Cheers,

/Per

On fri, 2005-06-17 at 05:13 -0700, Shiv Shankar Maurya wrote:
> Hi,
>    I am not able to load a mib file which has two
> tables with same entity names in the table. Although I
> am able to load with some other MIB browser. Am I
> doing something wrong?
>   the tables loo like this
>  table1entry
>     serialnumber
>     name
> table2entry
>     serialnumber
>     name
> 
> I get the error "symbol 'serialnumber' already present
> in MIB"
> "symbol 'name' already present in MIB"
> 
> 
> Shiv