Thanks Vincent, That clears things out. I was expecting, I was doing something wrong.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:29 AM Vincent Bernat <ber...@luffy.cx> wrote: > ❦ 31 juillet 2020 17:51 +02, He Da-Luo: > > > I'm developing an agent using the library Net-SNMP agent. Most of it > works > > fine but the requests from "snmptable" (bulk requests). > > When the Net-SNMP agent gets a "get next request"(snmpwalk) that reaches > > the end of a column or my table, my handler returns "null". Net-SNMP > agent > > responds with a next oid which belongs to another part of the tree and > > snmpwalk stops its requests. > > But when the Net-SNMP agent gets a "bulk request"(snmptable), it does not > > stop at the end of my table. It keeps going down the tree, calling my > other > > handlers for other tables. > > So my question is : How is it supposed to end ? I read about 'End of MIB > > exception' but I don't really know how to raise that and I don't really > > reach the end of the MIB just the end of that table. > > A GETBULK call is not expected to end at the boundary of a table. There > is no way for the agent to know if the caller is snmptable or snmpwalk. > The manager is expected to throw away the part it doesn't use. > -- > Identify bad input; recover if possible. > - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger) >
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