On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:15:22AM +0100, Robert Wilton wrote: > > Returning zero values here is not useful, in fact it is misleading. I think > that if a server doesn't have a value to return for a particular node it is > much better to return nothing than to return a false value.
+1. It took us years to kill this attitude in SNMP land. Saying a counter is zero and never changes is largely misleading if you actually have no such counter. It is easy to waste hours of expensive engineering time by given people fake counters. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list netmod@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
