Re: snmpbulkwalk doesn't finish

Stuart Kendrick <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization FHCRC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
i've opened a case with Cisco's TAC, asking them to add this to 
someone's to-do list

--sk

Dave Shield wrote:
> On 03/10/06, Stuart Kendrick <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ok, so here's how this section started (CISCO-FLASH-MIB):
>>
>> ChecksumString ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
>>          DISPLAY-HINT "x"
>>
>> and here's what it looked like after i made the change you suggested:
>>
>> ChecksumString ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
>>          DISPLAY-HINT "1x"
>>
>> and now snmpbulkwalk completes just fine, no hangs
> 
> That's what I half-expected (and certainly hoped).
> It looks as if this is a fault in the Cisco MIB files.
> The length indicator for OCTET STRING based DISPLAY-HINTs is required.
> [See RFC 2579, Section 3.1, clause (2)]
> 
> 
>> i found a paragraph on DISPLAY-HINT in Perkins/McGinnis ... but i don't
>> think i'm wiser for it
> 
> Don't worry - I am :-)
> 
> I'll log a tracker entry for the package to handle this error a bit
> more robustly.
> But the bottom line is that this is an invalid MIB definition, and
> ought to be fixed by Cisco.
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
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