Re: Textual name of Object in SNMP Packet

Wes Hardaker via Net-snmp-coders <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anandaprabu V <[email protected]> writes:

> Also could you confirm that Object Identifier(Numerical Name) and
> Object Name (Textual Name) having same property except that dotted
> decimal and string format?

The protocols (both SNMP and AgentX) only support using the numerical
OIDs in the identifier/value pairs (variable bindings).  If code needs
the name representation  for any reason, it would need to load up the
mibs to decode the numeric list into a name list hierarchy.

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Wes Hardaker
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