Hi Dave, I have not forgotten to put together the AgentX issues that I have found while testing NET-SNMP interoperability. I think I can provide that report next weekend.
Meanwhile I came across another issue related to NET-SNMP: SNMP4J(-Agent) supports engine ID discovery. A SNMP4J user reported, that he used a 5.3.1 NET-SNMP tool to send an inform request to a SNMP4J based manager application. The NET-SNMP tool sends a GET PDU to discover SNMP4J's engine ID. SNMP4J sends back a REPORT PDU with its engine ID in the authoritative engine ID field and the contextEngineID field is empty. NET-SNMP seems to ignore the authoritative engine ID and again sends a discover GET PDU. If the contextEngineID is set to the authoritative engine ID then NET-SNMP seems to recognize the engine ID and sends the INFORM PDU. I am writing "seems to" because this has been tested with another tool which sends its REPORT from the same port as it received the GET PDU whereas SNMP4J is using a different port (and no contextEngineID). From my point of view this is a bug because RFC 3414 states in ยง3.2 that specifying the contextEngineID in a REPORT PDU is optional. What do you think about this? Cheers, Frank Dave Shield wrote: > > We're currently in the (early) process of releasing 5.2.4, > so it's an ideal time to fix that particular line. Fixes for > the 5.3.x and 5.4.x lines will take a little longer, but > I can get the patch applied so it's ready to roll out. > > >> BTW, I have implemented a few workarounds into >> SNMP4J-AgentX and AgentX++ to cope with some bugs >> of the NET-SNMP subagent. Are interested in the >> details? > > Most Definitely! > I've been pulling together the outstanding bugs on our > tracker system, so it would be good to get as much of > this sorted as possible. A clear analysis of where things > have gone wrong is invaluable. > >> There seem also to be 64bit OS related bugs >> when encoding an IpAddress on AgentX. > > That wouldn't surprise me either. > Let us have what you've got, and we'll see what we > can do. > > Dave > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
