Re: engineID's format

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization Sparta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:14:11 -0700, "conniech" <[email protected]> said:

c> Is it true that engineID is a 22 digit hex string?

No, engineIDs can be variable in length depending on how they're
defined.  At a minimum I think they're 5 octets (10 hex), and likely
much longer.  And there is no one using a 5 octet engineID because it
would be worthless because it wouldn't be unique per engine (which it
needs to be).
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Cobham Analytic Solutions

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