David,
Thank you for your answer. I read through RFC 1157 and I understand
taht Trap-PDU defines variable bindings as 'VarBindList' exactly same
as Get/Response-PDU, So it should be implmented in the same way.
I will follow this for our agent implementation.
Norio Nakamoto
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:15:34 -0700
"David T. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> san wrote:
> HI,
>
> How SNMP messages are formed are defined in
> RFC 3416 - SNMPv2c and SNMPv3
> RFC 1157 - SNMPv1
>
> Notice that both have a varBindList returned, just like
> a response for a GET. It's not an idea or convention,
> it's the way the protocol is defined. Now, there has been
> people that have not understood the protocol definitions,
> and/or "experts" that have provided incorrect advice.
> However, the protocol definitions are clear and SNMP
> technology implementations that have gone through
> reviews show that variables do have instance sub-ids,
> and because of this there is NEVER the case to return
> index values as separate objects except for the single
> exception where the table consists of only index objects
> (which is allowed by the SMI, but is really a bad
> design approach).
>
,,,
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