Re: Is MacAddr a fixed or variable length OID?

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/04/07, Randall Loomis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reading section 7.7 of RFC-2578, I interpret an OCTET STRING with fixed
> size 6 should be specified thus:
> <oid_base>.11.22.33.44.55.66.<last_index>

That's correct.


> However, when doing an snmpget command, it's requiring me to include a
> length 6 as though it were a variable length OCTET STRING

No - it shouldn't work that way.



> Is this normal, or is there a way I can make the agent understand this
> is a fixed size string and doesn't need the preceding length?

Is this a MIB module that you have written yourself, or one from somewhere
else?   If so, who wrote it?   (You're going to say it's a Net-SNMP standard
module, aren't you?!)
    It definitely sounds like a bug in the agent MIB module.

Dave

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