> I would like to know if there is any restriction on the length of community > string and also the characters that comprise a community string.
Nothing inherent in SNMP, no. Assorted MIB tables make various assumptions, so I'd certainly avoid anything longer than 255 characters (DisplayString, SnmpAdminString) and the RMON-MIB seems to limit this to 127 characters. Plus if a community string is ever used as a table index, then you've got an overall limit of a valid OID of 128 subidentifiers. Embedded '\0' characters will almost certainly break quite a lot of things, and whitespace may cause some confusion if you're not careful. And there are often assumptions that a community string will be consist of printable characters. But in theory, the SNMP protocol ought to be capable of handling a community string consisting of 1024 null bytes! Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This Newsletter Sponsored by: Macrovision For reliable Linux application installations, use the industry's leading setup authoring tool, InstallShield X. Learn more and evaluate today. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSI/go/ins0030000001msi/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
