Hi Magnus Fromreide, Thanks for clarifying.
Thanks, Pushpa.T On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 10:17 AM Magnus Fromreide <ma...@lysator.liu.se> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 09:51:08AM +0530, Pushpa Thimmaiah wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Could you please let me know length of snmpEngineID. Is it 12 octets or > 32 > > octets. > > > > In RFC 3411 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3411.txt) , > > mib object 'snmpEngineID' says 12 octets in description and 32 octet in > > You have to read the whole text. > > An snmpEngineID has a syntax of OCTET STRING (SIZE(5..32)) > > If the first bit of the snmpEngineID is 0 and it is 12 octets long then it > might have been generated using the algorithm described in bullet 2 which > is > copied from rfc1910. > > If the first bit is 1 then it is generated in accordance with one of the > methods in bullet 3 (or RFC5343) but it is important to notice that bullets > 1-3 are just an recommended algorithm, not a mandatory one so you should > treat snmpEngineID a a variable length string and not attempt to parse it. > > /MF >
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