On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:01:27 +0100 Dave wrote:
DS> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:11, Robert Story wrote:
DS> > The question is, what should the default behaviour be?
DS> > Always delay the probe ... [or] allow a failed probe to
DS> > successfully return, and set up to retry the probe when needed.
DS>
DS> Either of those two would be acceptable.
DS>
DS> At the moment, the library has the unfortunate behaviour
DS> that you can't delay setting the SNMP version until after
DS> opening the session, if you're talking to a v1-only agent.
DS> The initial probe fails, so 'snmp_open' doesn't return a
DS> session structure - despite the fact that the v3 information
DS> wouldn't actually be needed anyway.
Doesn't setting SNMP_FLAGS_DONT_PROBE in the session flags work? That should
prevent the probe and allow a valid session struct to be returned.
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