[AGENT++] BER incompatibilty issue in SNMP++

Henning Eggers henning.eggers at plath.de
Thu Mar 18 12:15:17 CET 2004


> Using the long form length for encoding BER sequences is totally
> legal and decoding of such messages *must* be supported by
> any SNMP compliant agent.
Thanks, that's what I expected...

> There are a few broken SNMP APIs around there, that do not support
> long length.
The API of this device seems to be really broken: It does not accept long
length on "short" values (<0x80) but uses them in its own responses! It does
accept long length on long values, though...

Thanks for the clarification.

Greetings,
Henning





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