Re: How do you determine how long the (readable) community/username can be?

"christopher.wu" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <588857672.157044.1356138159754.JavaMail.sas1@[172.29.249.242]>
I never got a response to this so I started digging through the code.  It appears that VACM_MAX_STRING (32) controls this and a community/group/view name length cannot be equal to or larger than it.

My problem is that I was appending "_groupname" to the end of my community name to create the group name.  Therefore a 22 character community name made a 32 character group name, which is not allowed.

---- On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:21:05 -0700 christopher.wu  wrote ---- 

>For quite a while I have been under the impression that the maximum v2c community or v3 username that I can use with snmpwalk is 32 characters. I recently discovered that that does not appear to be the case. snmpwalk with both v2c and v3 only seems to only work for me with a maximum of 21 characters.
>
>For v3 I get the following with 22 characters:
>Error in packet.
>Reason: authorizationError (access denied to that object)
>
>For v2 I get the following with 22 characters:
>Timeout: No Response from 10.10.11.1
>
>I tested with NET-SNMP version 5.2.5.1 and version 5.5.1.
>
>I looked more closely at the definition of SnmpAdminString and I think this is where my confusion came from: "Similarly, size constraints refer to the number of encoded octets, not the number of characters represented by an encoding."
>
>So I'm wondering if I am safe telling users that 21 is the maximum. Will this change in a later release, and if so how to I determine this?


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