Re: How to get the sender address out of a pdu

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization Sparta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:39:23 +0200, Boris Zweimueller <[email protected]> said:

BZ> I noticed that in the pdu->transport_data array at positions 4-7 and 16-19
BZ> ip addresses are stored. It seams that the positions 4-7 store the senders
BZ> ip, but is this really correct? Is there a better way to find out the
BZ> senders address out of a pdu?

Generally, you shouldn't do this at all.  Although the transport object
will have data associated in it, SNMP is designed to run over many
different types of transports that include ones with and without IP
addresses.  If you end up eventually using your code in an agentx
subagent, the subagent won't have access to the address at all.

In short, you shouldn't do what you're trying to do without a really
really good reason as to why it can *only* be done that way.
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Cobham Analytic Solutions

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