> <<On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:11:12 -0800, Mike Smith <m...@smith.net.au> said: > > > Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, > > not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering > > of nodes. > > Nonsense. There are plenty of contexts in which a number makes far > more sense than a name -- pretty much anything in any network stack > other than Chaosnet, for example. If any of us ever make good on the > threat of SNMP integration, having fixed numerical identifiers will be > a requirement.
A number can be a name, but a name not a number. It's obvious that enumerated objects need numeric identifiers, but not desirable to mandate the existence of numbers to match all names. Unless you want the IANA to step in of course. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
