[SNMP4J] BITSTRING

[Frank Fock]

Hey Art,

The BITSTRING type is not yet implemented. I will add it
next week. The 1.7.3 was necessary for some changes needed
by SNMP4J-Agent 1.0 betat 5.

Best regards,
Frank


kapay wrote:
> Hello Frank,
>
> I noticed that SNMP4J 1.7.3 has already been posted on your site. Just 
> wondering, did you get a chance to implement the BITSTRING type? It's 
> never mentioned in the CHANGES.TXT and BER.java doesn't have any 
> definition for 0x03 data type either. How do I activate it in 1.7.3?
>
> Thank you.
> art
>
> */Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com>/* wrote:
>
>     Hello Art,
>
>     RFC 1442 has been obsoleted by RFC 1902 which is obsoleted by
>     RFC2578. Both do not define the BIT STRING type anymore.
>     Thus, a SNMPv2c standard compliant implementation should not
>     implement/use it.
>
>     You may extend SMNP4J by your own implementation of a BIT STRING
>     type. I will do so for the next SNMP4J release 1.7.3 too.
>     But I will add it in a way, that it needs to be "activated"
>     to be present, because that type is deprecated for 20 (!) years
>     now!
>
>     Best regards,
>     Frank
>
>     kapay wrote:
>     > Hello Frank,
>     >
>     > Thank you for responding.
>     > I am referring to the BIT STRING type with the HEX ID of 0x03
>     defined in
>     > RFC1442 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1442.html). The BITS type
>     that you
>     > mentioned has a HEX ID of 0x04 which is the same as OCTET STRING.
>     >
>     > ----
>     >
>     > 7.1.4. BIT STRING
>     >
>     > The BIT STRING type represents an enumeration of named bits.
>     > This collection is assigned non-negative, contiguous values,
>     > starting at zero. Only those named-bits so enumerated may be
>     > present in a value.
>     >
>     > A requirement on "standard" MIB modules is that the hyphen
>     > character is not allowed as a part of the label name for any
>     > named-bit enumeration.
>     >
>     > ----
>     >
>     > I got a device who is returning BIT STRING data probably because
>     that
>     > device also suppots SNMPv2. Do you think this will work if I use
>     SNMPv2
>     > instead? Does SNMP4j supports this data type for SNMPv2c?
>     >
>     > I looked through the SNMP4j sources and couldn't find any
>     definition for
>     > BIT STRING type. Just for reference ireasonings's SNMP API
>     contains this
>     > definition;
>     >
>     http://www.ireasoning.com/javadocs/com/ireasoning/protocol/snmp/SnmpDataType.html#BITSTRING
>     >
>     > Thank you.
>     > Art
>     >
>     >
>     > */Frank Fock /* wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi Art,
>     >
>     > BITSTRING is not a valid SNMP type. Does it is not supported
>     > by SNMP4J. Probably you mean the BITS type. That is supported
>     > (see recent discussion on this mailing list).
>     >
>     > When you get a genVBErr as response, the value of the requested
>     > variable must be null and thus you cannot see which type it
>     > would had been.
>     >
>     > Best regards,
>     > Frank
>     >
>     > kapay wrote:
>     > > Hello.
>     > >
>     > > Does SNMP4j (v1.5) supports BITSTRING data type?
>     > > I am using SNMPv1 and snmp4j returns the "General variable
>     > binding error" string when the snmp device responded with a
>     > BITSTRING value.
>     > >
>     > > Thank you.
>     > > Art.
>     > >
>     > >
>     > >
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