[AGENT++] [SNMP++] Longer than expected response with unprintable characters

[Frank Fock]

Hi Altaf,

I would guess that this is a problem of the agent
and not SNMP++. Have you checked the response PDU's
length with a sniffer like Ethereal?

Best regards,
Frank

Altaf Aali wrote:
> Using the SNMP++ library, I am observing that I am getting longer responses
> than expected which contain unprintable characters and spaces beyond the
> valid characters. This always happens for the hex octet strings. So if a 
> MAC
> address is to be returned as follows:
> 
> AC 03 EF 00 00 00
> 
> I get ........  AC 03 EF 00 00 00 .........................   ............
> 
> The same applies to IP address values etc. I have worked around this in my
> application by checking the size of the printable_value and that of the
> octetstr which differ in this case and if they are different, I strip off
> characters myself.
> 
> A bigger problem occurs when the type is a composite string in which case I
> get more garbage.
> 
> Is this a known problem and is there a fix for this?
> 
> thanks
> Altaf
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