Re: SNMPSET illusion?

"Raghavendra Prasad" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>No - the SNMP agent does *not* use the MIB file for processing SET
> (or GET*) requests.  It''s up to your code to handle any validation that
> might be required.  Hence the suggestion above.
>
> The "snmpset" command does do range validation, and will simply not
> send requests that it knows will fail.   But if you want the agent to
> reject invalid values, then *your* code must check for these.
>
> Dave
>
That dispelled my wrong notion - many thanks for the clarification.

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