RE: IpAddress types being rewritten as signed integer

Ahh I see.  I thought I had read differently.  I'll just have to continue to
decode the integers in my handlers.

Thanks.

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Telesphere Networks, Inc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Dave Shield
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 6:49 AM
> To: Larry Low
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: IpAddress types being rewritten as signed integer
> 
> On 28/01/2008, Larry Low <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Here is the capture from an event.  As you can see the issue.
> IpAddress is
> > by definition formatted as an unsigned integer but snmptrapd is
> detecting it
> > as a signed integer.
> 
> Actually, assuming that these MIB objects are defined using the
> syntax IpAddress,  these are actually four-octet character strings.
> (See RFC 2578 for the definition of IpAddress).
> 
> If the generating application is encoding these as integers,
> then this will indeed trigger a "WrongType" error message.
> 
> Dave


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