On Thu, 3 May 2018 14:32:40 -0400 Bill wrote:
BF> > On Wed, 2 May 2018 11:08:44 -0400 Bill wrote:  
BF> > BF> I just filed
BF> > BF> https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/2864/ :
BF> > BF> "clientaddr" doesn't work to set the source address for
BF> > BF> traps any more.  (And given that the code path is the
BF> > BF> same, I suspect it doesn't work for client requests
BF> > BF> either).  This is a regression against 5.7.3; that code
BF> > BF> has been restructured so it's not surprising that
BF> > BF> something has changed.
BF> >
BF> > I think the fix you found looks right. Does it work in your
BF> > testing?  
BF> 
BF> Yes, and v6 needs the same fix, and it looks like there are
BF> other calls to the address parsers that make the wrong
BF> assumption about the return value. I have an idea about adding
BF> tests for traps, so that we could test "clientaddr" and the
BF> "trapsink" family of session creations with their "-s"
BF> arguments, but I don't know how to invoke the other
BF> mechanisms.  Although, maybe a unit test would be better for
BF> this, to invoke the transport creation with clientaddr set, or
BF> with seession.localaddr set, or by setting ->source in the
BF> transport config, and making sure that the expected value is
BF> filled in in the returned session.

I'm probably not going to hold up rc1 for this, but fixing other
address parsers handling of the return code is something I'd vote
for allowing after rc1.

Robert

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