There does not seem to be anything in the RFCs on maximum community
string lengths. Is there some defacto standard for maximum length. Does
net-snmp impose a maximum length?
Richard.
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2009/4/15 Richard Gipps :
> There does not seem to be anything in the RFCs on maximum community
> string lengths.
Correct.
The specs implicitly allow an arbitrary length string
(although there may be some limit imposed by ASN.1
or BER - I'm not sure offhand).
> Is there some defacto standard for
> From: Dave Shield [mailto:d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:25 AM
> 2009/4/15 Richard Gipps :
> > There does not seem to be anything in the RFCs on maximum community
> > string lengths.
>
> Correct.
> The specs implicitly allow an arbitrary length string
> (altho
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Mike Ayers wrote:
>> From: Dave Shield [mailto:d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk]
>> The specs implicitly allow an arbitrary length string
>> (although there may be some limit imposed by ASN.1
>> or BER - I'm not sure offhand).
>
> Over a million octets, IIRC.
>
>>
> From: Bart Van Assche [mailto:bart.vanass...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:05 PM
> An UDP packet can contain at most 65527 bytes data. UDP packets that
> do not fit in a single Ethernet packet (max. 1500 bytes when not using
> GbE jumbo frames) get fragmented over multiple Et
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Mike Ayers wrote:
>> See
>> also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol.
>
> Wikipedia as a technical reference?! Please...
If you don't trust Wikipedia, look up the appropriate RFC. You can
find a reference to the RFC in which UDP has been de
2009/4/16 Mike Ayers :
> Wikipedia as a technical reference?! Please...
What's wrong with that?
Sure - if I want a definitive answer, then I'll go to the RFCs.
But if I want a quick overview to get me started (and something that
I might actually understand!) , then Wikipedia is a reasonab
> From: dave.shi...@googlemail.com
> [mailto:dave.shi...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Dave Shield
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:41 AM
> 2009/4/16 Mike Ayers :
> > Wikipedia as a technical reference?! Please...
>
> What's wrong with that?
>
> Sure - if I want a definitive answer, the
