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.


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