On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:34:45AM +0100, Magnus Fromreide wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:36:44AM +0100, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:02:01PM +0200, Yaniv S. wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I'm Intrested to add an Implementation of get-range method to an snmp > > > client for academic reasons (resarch and such). > > > Get Range was defined in Internet Draft but wasn't approved as RFC. > > > > I personally would very much appreciate an implementation. If there > > are things missing or unclear in the ID, please let us know. > > Ok, I'll bite on this one :-) > > If, using the definitions of N, B and R from the ID, B != R, then what should > happen? If B < R I suppose the extra B's should be ignored but if R > B the > most reasonable interpretation of the additional parameters seems to be as an > unlimited GetBulk, is this correct?
On further reflection, if we assume that R and B must be equal then B by definition have to be ((number of varbinds) - N) / 2 and so there is no need to put it into the PDU, so that field could be used for a more constructive purpose, for instance a max-repetitions field as in GetBulk. The point here is that you can be a lot more generous with the max-repetitions than in GetBulk since the bumpers will stop excessive repetition. I also think that in the case of GetRange a max-repetitions value of 0 could be used to denote unlimited repetition. /MF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
