Re: setting ifAdminStatus when interface cannot go up

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
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

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