Re: MAC Address As Index
Niels Baggesen via Net-snmp-coders <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 06:14:34PM +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote: > Hi, > > When using MAC Address as an index ( I am using MacAddress type from > SNMPv2-TC.) the output is incorrect because the length of the string > is prefixed as mac address is defined as OCTET STR there is an extra > byte and the last byte of mac address is interpreted as next OID. > > snmpwalk: > HistValue."wlp8s0f0".'....B.'.hist_2.2.19 > snmpwalk -OX > HistValue["wlp8s0f0"][STRING: 06:00:90:e6:42:99][hist_2][2].19 > > In the above examples last but one OID 2 is hist_2. Is there a way to > disable prefixing of length? See RFC 2578, clause 7.7. You define your MAC address as an OCTET STRING (SIZE(6)), then there is no need to prefix the length. /Niels -- Niels Baggesen - @home - Århus - Denmark - [email protected] The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers --- R W Hamming