| Description | The prefix length of the external IP address used for
wildcarding. A value of 0 indicates a full wildcard;
in this case, the value of midcomRuleExternalIpAddr is
irrelevant. If midcomRuleExternalIpVersion has a value
of ipv4(1), then a value > 31 indicates no wildcarding
at all. If midcomRuleExternalIpVersion has a value
of ipv4(2), then a value > 127 indicates no wildcarding
at all. A MIDCOM-MIB implementation that does not
support IP address wildcarding MUST implement this object
as read-only with a value of 128. A MIDCOM that does
not support wildcarding based on prefix length MAY
restrict allowed values for this object to 0 and 128.
This object is used as input to a request for establishing
a policy rule as well as for indicating the properties of
an established policy rule.
If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has the
value newEntry(1), setting(2), or reserved(7), then this
object can be written by a manager in order to specify the
prefix length of the external IP address for which an
enable policy rule is requested to be established.
Writing to this object in any state other than
newEntry(1), setting(2), or reserved(7) will always fail
with an 'inconsistentValue' error.
Note that this error code is SNMP specific. If the MIB
module is used with other protocols than SNMP, errors with
similar semantics specific to those protocols should be
returned.
If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has the
value enabled(8), then this object will have the value
that it had before the transition to this state.
If object midcomRuleOperStatus of the same entry has a
value other than newEntry(1), setting(2), reserved(7), or
enabled(8), then the value of this object is irrelevant. |