At 3/31/2000:08:49 AM, Beecher Adams wrote:
Hi,
This thread belongs on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and probably
not on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moreover, I haven't been following
this thread real closely and I'm not sure who owns the
following quoted material but:
>The normal use of error-index is to indicate which varbind may have been the
>source of the error. I suspect many agents don't get this fancy though and
>don't make use of the field.
Very wrong. Only a very broken agent would not use the
error-index field to point to the varbind for which an
error-status is being returned.
>I'm proposing to use this field instead as an index to an error details table.
This is a non-starter due to error in your
suspicion above.
Cordially,
BobN
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