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On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Dave Shield <d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk> wrote: > On 22 October 2010 14:45, Doug Manley <doug.man...@gmail.com> wrote: >> To address this, we see two possible solutions: >> 1. Force every agent on the planet to support proper RequestIDs. >> 2. Add an option to net-snmp to wrap request IDs on the 31-bit boundary. >> >> I don't think that option #1 is viable, and my company needs to have >> this "solved" in some manner fairly shortly. > > $ man snmp.conf > > 16bitIDs yes > restricts requestIDs, etc to 16-bit values. > The SNMP specifications define these ID fields as > 32-bit quantities, and the Net-SNMP library typically > initialises them to random values for security. However > certain (broken) agents cannot handle ID values greater > than 2^16 - this option allows interoperability with such agents. > > >> I also don't think that we should force net-snmp to perform poorly >> because some manufacturers can't count past 31 bits. I think that an >> *option*, however, either to net-snmp itself or to a particular >> session would address the problem. > > We agree. > Which is why this particular option was introduced in 2003 :-) > > Dave > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list Net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
