On 3 February 2011 05:02, Biswajit Mandal <[email protected]> wrote: > I have query regarding the objects whose SYNTAX is PortList. > > Currently the objects having PortList SYNTAX, scaling the number of ports > becomes a problem. > > For example say, > The number of ports in the system can scale upto a few thousands-say 32k. > To configure the ports 30001-30100 to a VLAN, the user has to specify: > 3750 bytes of 00 and then set the bits for the ports from 30001-30100. > > Would like to know if there is a way of representing the MIB object which > supports a better user friendly configuration.
Are you talking about how such values are represented "on-the-wire", or how the end-user would specify these values to a client application? Assuming the latter, then your application could accept a list of port numbers (or port ranges) and parse the individual numbers to set the appropriate bits in the octet string This is effectively what the 'snmp_add_var()' routine does for the BITS type. (Though without the handling of ranges) Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
