[SNMP4J] BITSTRING

[kapay]

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. 

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 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.
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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 <fock at agentpp.com> 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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