On 19 October 2012 18:50, Joan Landry <joan.lan...@overturenetworks.com> wrote: > When I walk a column in one table, and that table is empty I see that > net-snmp is > calling handlers for tables that are next in the oid table sequence.
That is correct. > Is there a reason why net-snmp goes to the next table - when a next > was requested for a given column in one table. No - a GetNext request was issued for a given OID (which just happens to fall within a particular table). The defined behaviour of the GetNext request is that it will return the next valid instance that the agent supports. Not the next instance within a particular range or within the same table - the next valid instance. The agent is working as expected. The SNMP protocol has no idea about the logical structure of MIB information - that's why it can work even without MIB files being available. (That's also why "snmpwalk" will always issue one "extra" GetNext request, and discard the result) > This can take a long time to respond if the subsequent > tables are also empty. If a table is empty, then processing requests for it ought to be quick, surely? If that's taking a long time, then this is probably the thing to address. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ 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
