Re: Regarding MultivarBind Set/Get operation

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <CAKoMtGY57D1h99k3UmxSuWsAEibsvemRv9K1XKpL8BvgdZWSQg@mail.gmail.com>
On 5 September 2011 18:27, Pete Snmp <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) Is this possible to set/get multiple varbinds in single request?

Yes.

> 2)If YES, then , is it the same with  SNMP v1 and SNMP v2 ?

Yes

> 3) If YES, then, how is it possibly handled at the MAC layer if
>  we try retrieving/setting varbinds  more than 1500 bytes payload Ethernet limit?

SNMP (like any other network protocol) doesn't really care about how packets
might be fragmented and reassembled.  That's a matter for the lower levels.
If a fragment gets lost, then the whole request will be repeated, exactly as if
there was a problem with any other PDU.

There are recommendations within the specs to try and avoid fragmentation,
but that's more concerned with the scenarios where network management
typically comes into its own - i.e. determining what's happening when things
aren't working properly.   If there are network problems, then having
unfragmented
request PDUs makes it more likely that they will get through successfully.

But that's not fundamental to the SNMP protocol - large requests work fine
with the normal fragmentation/reassembly.



> 4) Is there any difference to SNMP get request in V1 and V2?
>   This is w.r.t to partial results

Yes.
A single invalid OID within a multi-varbind SNMPv1 request will trigger
an error response (i.e. no other information will be returned).
  The same invalid OID within a multi-varbind SNMPv2 request will
report an exception for that particular varbind (along with the appropriate
values for all other varbinds).

See any book on SNMP for more details.


Dave

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