Re: setting ifAdminStatus when interface cannot go up
Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.user |
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| Organization | Sparta |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>>>>> On Wed, 19 May 2010 19:30:44 +0100, "Lewis Adam-VNQM87" <[email protected]> said: LA> Just to give some context to what I am doing: basically, we are LA> looking to use a cut-down version of the net-snmp agent code as one LA> of many tasks running on an embedded platform. The platform has a LA> number of interfaces, some of which (currently) cannot be controlled LA> via SNMP. What I was trying to work out was the appropriate way of LA> handling a (albeit not very sensible) request from an SNMP manager LA> to set the ifAdminStatus of one of the 'notPresent' interfaces. The right thing to do is actually to follow the instructions in RFC3416 which describes in detail what to do for requests to objects that aren't supported in some way. (in particular, I refer to section 4.2.5 all the time for SET handling). -- Wes Hardaker Cobham Analytic Solutions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users