[AGENT++] IP address validity

[Ramin Dousti]

I'm sorry. The below test works just fine. Apologies...

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:01:22PM -0400, Ramin Dousti wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm receiving traps with some private enterprise OID with an octed-string
> value which should represent an IP address. How can I make sure that the
> value I receive is a valid IP address and not a random string? What I did
> was:
> 
> IpAddress tmpIP(vb.get_printable_value());
> if (tmpIP.valid()) {
> 	// the octed-string is a valid IP address
> 	...
> } else {
> 	// the octed-string is _not_ a valid IP address
> 	...
> }
> 
> but unfortunately it shows valid all the time even if the octed-string is,
> eg, "test".
> 
> Ramin
> 
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