On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 06:44:24 +0100 (BST) saifulla wrote:
SMA> As per the SNMP standard, the MAX OID length should
SMA> not be > 128 bytes.
SMA>
SMA> We have found that SNMP agents(Commercial, open
SMA> software) take care of this differently.
SMA>
SMA> Question is : What is the correct behaviour:
SMA>
SMA> 1. Does agent must Return Error(ASN Parse Error) for
SMA> any GET/SET/NEXT request with OID > 128?
My reading of the specs is that an ObjectName with more than 128
subidentifiers is not valid. Thus a parse error is the correct, and the packet
should be dropped.
Any tool/library that sends such a packet is broken.
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