Re: String in OID

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/6/5 Vincent Bernat <[email protected]>:
> I don't quite understand the rule  to apply when an OCTET STRING is used
> as an index  of a table. It  seems that when several string  are used as
> index, each string should be  prefixed by its length (when converting to
> an OID). However,  when the string comes in last  position, no length is
> needed. What is the precise rule for all this?

See RFC 2578, Section 7.7


> { OCTET STRING, OCTET STRING } -> each string prefixed with length

First yes - second, depends on the MIB definition

> { INTEGER, OCTET STRING } -> no length

Depends on the MIB definition

> { OCTET STRING, INTEGER } -> length needed ?

Yes

Dave

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