I just did a grep through the net-snmp code [5.7 as well] and I can't see anywhere where the snmpSilentDrops stat gets updated. Am I missing something?
Adam > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dave Shield > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 10:32 AM > To: Lewis Adam-VNQM87 > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: consistent response handling for running out of resources > > On 18 August 2011 17:09, Lewis Adam-VNQM87 > <[email protected]> wrote: > > As far as I can tell, in the latter case we > just > > time out the request rather than attempt to send a too big (or any > > other) error response. Is this the correct behavior? > > The spec that Wes quoted continues as follows: > > This alternate Response-PDU is then encapsulated into a message. > If the size of the resultant message is less than or equal to both a > local constraint and the maximum message size of the originator, > it is transmitted to the originator of the GetRequest-PDU. > > Otherwise, [which seems to cover your case] the snmpSilentDrops > [RFC3418] counter is incremented and the resultant message is > discarded. > > See section 4.2.1 of RFC 3416 > > Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
