Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:11:19 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question) Message-ID: <199901250111.RAA09508@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199901250041.QAA06023@dingo.cdrom.com>
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:> > 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.
... actually, a name *CAN* be a number. You simply compute a 64 bit
CRC on the name. The chance of collision is vanishingly small --
for reference:
http://www.backplane.com/diablo/crc64.html
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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