snmptrapd forwarding with OID wildcards [sec:unclass]

Hi there,
 
I'm trying to set up some servers that forward traps with specific OID
prefixes to other trap servers. According to the snmptrapd.conf man
page, the 'OID' token for the 'forward' directive is the same as for the
'traphandle' directive ("The interpretation of OID (and default) is the
same as for the traphandle directive)."). The documentation for 'OID'
token for the 'traphandle' directive says "[The OID token] supports a
simple form of wildcard suffixing. By appending the character
notification based within subtree rooted at the specified OID".
 
So, by this I'm thinking that the 'forward' directive supports wildcards
too.
 
However, if I enter the following line into snmptrapd.conf:
 
"forward 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.0.* 1.1.1.1"
 
And restart snmptrapd, I get the following error message in the log:
 
"/etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf: line 9: Error: Bad trap OID in forward
directive: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.0.*"
 
If I replace the line with:
 
"forward 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.0.1 1.1.1.1"
 
I get no error message.
 
Is this on purpose, is it a bug, or am I doing something wrong? I'm
using Net-SNMP version 5.4 on linux.
 
Thanks for your help in advance,
 
-Matthew

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