How to define table with the index of mac address

[livia xie]

I have a private table whose indexes are mac address and  rule index . I use mib2c to generate the basic codes for me and it recognize the mac address index's type as ASN_OCTET_STR.  Thus I define the following variables:

  char *mac_addr[6];

  int    rule_index;

and then write the following codes to set indexes of the table in the function get_next_data_point:

snmp_set_var_value(vptr,  (u_char *)(entry->mac_addr), strlen(entry->mac_addr));
 vptr = vptr->next_variable;
 snmp_set_var_value(vptr,  (u_char *)&(entry->rule_index), sizeof(entry->rule_index));                    
 vptr = vptr->next_variable;
 *my_data_context =(void*)entry;
 *my_loop_context =(void*)entry->next;

 

In order to test this codes, I construct the following datas manually in function get_first_data_pointer:

  entry->mac_addr[0] = 'a';
  entry->mac_addr[0] = 'b';
  entry->mac_addr[0] = 'c';
  entry->mac_addr[0] = 'd';
  entry->mac_addr[0] = 'e';
  entry->mac_addr[0] = 'f';     
   entry->rule_index = 2;

Then I run the command of snmpwalk, but it returns the different indexes:

table.'abcde'.102.2.variable = xxxx;

Thus value of 'f ' is missing and '102' is added strangely.

 

In fact I want to get and set the mac address as the following format: table.a:b:c:d:e:f. 2. variable=xxx;

Could anyone give me some advice on how to process such indexes? Thank you very much!

II am looking forward to your reply! Anyway thanks again!

 

Best Regards!

Liva