Re: Problem trying to set the value of an IP address

Fulko Hew <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Roycey Cheeran <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I am trying to set an oid with a IP address with no luck so far.
>
> The OID is 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.42.1.2.2.1.2.1
>
> My snmpset command is
>
> snmpset -v2c -c NE 192.168.101.3  1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.42.1.2.2.1.2.1 s
> 61.246.208.125
>
> I get the following error message
> Error in packet.
> Reason: inconsistentValue (The set value is illegal or unsupported in some
> way.
>

Your syntax should probably at the very least be:

 snmpset -v2c -c NE 192.168.101.3  1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.42.1.2.2.1.2.1 a
61.246.208.125

ie.  Specifying 'a' should let it translate the dotted quad address into an
OCTET STRING.

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