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

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Zack Little <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I have searched the forum but can't seem to find an answer to this question.

...

> When I do an snmpwalk (via IPv4) against snmpd some of the items I get back
> are IPv6 items, which is great. For example, I get back the IPv6 address my
> box is configured for. I just assumed that because IPv6 worked with snmpwalk
> that all other areas I'm using would support IPv6 as well. I've been having
> trouble trying to figure this out though.

    This could be an extremely large and false assumption.

> The first problem is that I return a custom MIB using a pass-through script.
> I'd like to return an IPv6 address. 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, but in looking at
> pass_persist.c that doesn't appear to be the case.

    Can you please provide examples of the failing snmptrap commands,
or trivial examples of code that failed via passthrough for you? Also,
noting the version of net-snmp, the OS version, etc would be extremely
helpful.
Thanks,
-Garrett

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