Thomas Anders writes: > What you're seeing is the difference between: > > 1) objects of type OCTET STRING defined as SYNTAX SnmpAdminString or > DisplayString (e.g. the SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 you tested with) > 2) objects of type OCTET STRING defined as SYNTAX OCTET STRING or > without a known MIB object definition > > snmptrapd displays (consistently in 5.1.x, 5.2.x and CVS MAIN): > 1) as STRING: XXXX (w/o quotes) > 2) as STRING: "XXXX" (w/ quotes) > > I'm not in the mood to comment on whether this behaviour is the most > sensible. Anyone else?
I argue that there should be SOME way to avoid all ambiguities of the sort I described. My preference would be that this should happen without any special configuration or command line arguments. I would also prefer something that is relatively easy to parse. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users