Re: MAC Address As Index

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 6:59 PM Krishna Chaitanya
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:04 PM Niels Baggesen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:40:38PM +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:
> > > > BTW, somehow the response from Neils is missed but found it in the archive.
> > > >
> > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg21705.html
> > > >
> > > > MacAddress TC from SNMPv2-TC is a fixed size string, so, the length
> > > > should not be prefixed.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Any ideas on how to get proper MAC address display without any side
> > > effects? Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > The MacAddress TC mentioned above has a DISPLAY-HINT "1x:", does that
> > not display the way you want? Otherwise show us what you see, and what
> > is wrong with it.
> >
> Missed your reply again, now added filters and then found it.
>
> Yes, the TC should work properly, but unfortunately, it doesn't, My
> display is as below:
> You can see that the "6" is prefixed and ".1/.2/.3" are part of MAC addresses.
>
> This may not be a display only problem, currently, I am debugging a case where
> deleting a single entry from the table makes it go haywire, it deletes
> the wrong entry,
> the same issue could probably be the reason (not sure though).

FYI, Just tried changing the MAC address the problem persists, so, this issue
is not the reason.
>
> $ snmptable -v3 -a MD5 -l authNoPriv localhost -OX -Ci
>                         index mpduTx
> ["wlp1s0"][6:52:54:0:c8:53].1    302
> ["wlp1s0"][6:52:54:0:c8:53].2    307
> ["wlp1s0"][6:52:54:0:c8:53].3    328
>
>
> The MIB entry snippets are as below:
>
> MacAddress, TEXTUAL-CONVENTION FROM SNMPv2-TC
> ...
> bwtBh2GenStatsEntry OBJECT-TYPE
>   SYNTAX BwtBh2GenStatsEntry
>   MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>   STATUS current
>   DESCRIPTION
>     "A row in BH2 Gen stats table"
>   INDEX { ifaceName, remoteMAC }
>   ::= {bwtBh2GenStatsTable 1}
> ....
> remoteMAC OBJECT-TYPE
>        SYNTAX MacAddress
>        MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
>        STATUS current
>        DESCRIPTION
>            "Remote MAC address to which these statistics relate"
>     ::= { bwtBh2GenStatsEntry 2 }



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Thanks,
Regards,
Chaitanya T K.