Re: Handling "BITS" data types in SNMP.xs

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization Sparta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:55:50 -0800, "Andrew Teklemariam" <[email protected]> said:

Andrew> Does the Net-SNMP perl wrapper handle data of type "BITS" correctly?

Andrew> Looking at the code in SNMP.xs __add_var_val_str function (V 5.2.2), it
Andrew> seems the BITS data type is handled as a character string.  If for
Andrew> example, I set the field to" 'FC000000', SNMP.xs sends an 8 byte
Andrew> character string to the agent.

Andrew> snmp_api.c on the other hand, handles it correctly.

That is bad, as Thomas said.  However, I think it's actually legal...
I think agent's are supposed to assume that any missing bits are 0...

-- 
Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.


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