Re: A config file command for specifying an exact engineID

2008-01-20 Thread Thomas Anders
Nathan Schrenk wrote: Attached is a patch that handles a new exactEngineID command in snmpd.conf. Is this something that the maintainers of NET-SNMP think is useful? If so, do you have any suggestions for changes, and would you consider adding this to a future NET-SNMP release? My gut

Re: A config file command for specifying an exact engineID

2008-01-20 Thread Nathan Schrenk
On Jan 20, 2008 12:42 PM, Thomas Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My gut feeling would be to extend the existing engineIDType/engineID functionality to cover that, i.e. to introduce a new engine ID type 4 (raw). Whatever way you prefer, please submit your final patch to

A config file command for specifying an exact engineID

2008-01-18 Thread Nathan Schrenk
Hi, I'm working on a project to include an SNMP agent based on NET-SNMP's snmpd in an ethernet switch. The switch's command-line interface provides the ability to specify the SNMP agent's engineID. This is somewhat problematic with NET-SNMP (at least as of version 5.4.1) because there is no way

Re: A config file command for specifying an exact engineID

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Shield
On 18/01/2008, Nathan Schrenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is no way to specify the engineID exactly. I'd like to be able to configure the engineID using a command that just takes the hex-encoded raw engineID, similar to the oldEngineID command. Maybe I'm

Re: A config file command for specifying an exact engineID

2008-01-18 Thread Nathan Schrenk
On Jan 18, 2008 3:45 PM, Dave Shield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/01/2008, Nathan Schrenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is no way to specify the engineID exactly. I'd like to be able to configure the engineID using a command that just takes the