Re: MAC Address As Index

Bill Fenner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Message-ID <CAF4SogY2VCssOJcAMPMUWchS94u3Lo9qVf5tpjp3jRbrv5uCWA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 8:45 AM Krishna Chaitanya <[email protected]>
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?
>

The prefixing of length is done by the agent.  Are you asking about a MIB
module that you implemented?  Try changing your object definition
from ASN_OCTET_STR to ASN_PRIV_IMPLIED_OCTET_STR.

  Bill

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