Re: snmpd 5.4.rc2 error messages

Robert Story <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:15:31 -0500 Mike wrote:
MS> Hi, again.
MS> 
MS> Thanks for the help. However, I've searched for some time through the 
MS> archives, and, although I can find  several messages from you  
MS> suggesting patches were  attached, yet  I cannot find any such 
MS> attachments. It must be my lack of practice with the mailing list. I 
MS> don't suppose you would be so kind as to send me whatever patches you 
MS> may have that would fit 5.4rc2? I can always make then fit if they are 
MS> close.

Sorry, there aren't any patches. The 'suggestion' I mentioned was just my
brief description of what would be needed to fix the problem:

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:24:30 -0500 Robert wrote:
RS> This is the source of the problem. The indexes for this table are
RS> ipAddressAddrType and ipAddressAddr. That means that an ipAddress on
RS> multiple interfaces will not have a unique index.
RS> 
RS> So, to deal with this, you would have to add support for the ipv4z InetAddress
RS> type. This adds an extra 2 bytes to an ipv4 InetAddress, for the 'zone.' Then
RS> you would have to make sure that the zone portion is consistently set to the
RS> same value.
RS> 
RS> I haven't checked, but this might (probably will) require updates throughout
RS> the code to deal with an ip address that is not 4 bytes long.

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