Re: about mac addresss problem

On tor, 2007-03-29 at 13:23 +0800, Clement Hsu wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I am Clement. I meet a problem about macaddress. The following is the
> mib which I want to write:
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [MIB]
....
> dot11Address OBJECT-TYPE
> SYNTAX MacAddress
> MAX-ACCESS read-create
> STATUS current
> DESCRIPTION
> "MAC address identifying a multicast addresses
> from which this STA will receive frames."
> ::= { dot11GroupAddressesEntry 2 }

> The problem is when I perform mib2c and create the corresponding mib
> template( I use mib2c.iterate_access)
> After coding, when I perform ./get, I got the following result:
>
> Walk dot11GroupAddressesTable
> IEEE802dot11-MIB:: dot11Address.1.0 = STRING: 11:22:33:44:55:66:1
> IEEE802dot11-MIB::dot11Address.2.0 = STRING: 11:22:33:44:55:66:1
> IEEE802dot11-MIB::dot11Address.3.0 = STRING: 11:22:33:44:55:66:1
> IEEE802dot11-MIB::dot11Address.4.0 = STRING: 11:22:33:44:55:66:1
> IEEE802dot11-MIB::dot11GroupAddressesStatus.1.0 = INTEGER: active(1)
> IEEE802dot11-MIB::dot11GroupAddressesStatus.2.0 = INTEGER: active(1)
> IEEE802dot11-MIB::dot11GroupAddressesStatus.3.0 = INTEGER: active(1)
> IEEE802dot11-MIB:: dot11GroupAddressesStatus.4.0 = INTEGER: active(1)
>
> the error is that the EEE802dot11-MIB::dot11Address.1.0 should show
> Hex-STRING: 11 22 33 44 55 66
> not
> STRING: 11:22:33:44:55:66:1

This is expected since your MIB states that you should use MacAddress as
syntax for dot11Address and MacAddress has a DISPLAY-HINT of "1x:"

The big question is why there are seven entries in your address.

/MF


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