RE: Do pass-through scripts and snmptrap support IPv6 arguments?

Thanks for the reply Dave.  I'm confused by your answers and will need some more guidance please.
 

> You don't specify which MIB objects you are querying to retrieve your
> IPv6 addresses. My guess is that you are looking at the ipAddressTable
> to get results such as
 
Initially the requirement given to me was to have our box return both the IPV6-MIB and IPV6-ICMP-MIB.  Thanks to this forum I learned that these were both obsoleted in 2006.  The people making the requirment were fine with just having IP-MIB return IPv6 information.

> > According to the man page for snmpd.conf
> > the pass-through scripts accept a type of “integer, gauge, counter,
> > timeticks, ipaddress, objectid, or string”. I crossed my fingers and hoped
> > that ipaddress would also support IPv6 addresses
> 
> No.
> IpAddress is part of the original SNMP data definitions from SNMPv2-SMI,
> and predates the concerted effort for IPv6 support. It is *purely* for IPv4
> addresses.
> Anything else (including IPv6 or "address-agnostic" values) should use
> the newer (InetAddressType,InetAddress) pairs.
 
This is the part where I get confused.  If pass-through scripts only accept types of  “integer, gauge, counter, timeticks, ipaddress, objectid, or string” then how would I use the InetAddress object binary string to return an IPv6 address in my custom MIB?  None of those types seem related to a binary string.  (I use the "string" type for returning regular ASCII string values.)

> > I'm having a similar problem with snmptrap. I'd like to send an IPv6 address
> > as an argument in a trap.
> 
> Exactly the same holds here.
> 
> > The man page says that it accepts a type of “a” to
> > signify an “IPADDRESS”. When I try to using an IPv6 address with the “a” arg
> > it also doesn't work.
> 
> No - it won't. You can't put a v6 peg into a v4 hole.
> 
> 
> 
> > Can anyone offer suggestions?
> 
> Use InetAddress objects (which are simply binary strings)

Similar confusion from me here.  The situation with snmptrap seems better because it can accept arguments with a type of "HEX STRING" or "DECIMAL STRING".  I don't know how to convert an IPv6 address into that format though.

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