[SNMP4J] General SNMP Question: Is it valid for the Read/WriteCommunity Name to be empty (i.e. "")?

[PHIL BERGSTRESSER]

    And the answer to the other part of the question of content. There
is no limitation on character content of the community name. It does not
have to be readable/displayable.
    HTH,
Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: snmp4j-bounces at agentpp.org 
> [mailto:snmp4j-bounces at agentpp.org] On Behalf Of Frank Fock
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 4:19 PM
> To: Jamie Bisotti
> Cc: snmp4j at agentpp.org
> Subject: Re: [SNMP4J] General SNMP Question: Is it valid for 
> the Read/WriteCommunity Name to be empty (i.e. "")?
> 
> Hi Jamie,
> 
> there is no maximum length for a community string, but you 
> should have in mind MTU and the maximum UDP packet length 
> (64K). So it should not be that long if you cannot make sure 
> that MTU and transport packet length do not limit functionality.
> 
> Best regards,
> Frank
> 
> Jamie Bisotti wrote:
> > On 8/15/07, Jamie Bisotti <jbisotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 8/14/07, Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Yes, an empty (= zero length) community name is valid.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Frank
> >>>
> >>> Jamie Bisotti wrote:
> >>>> All,
> >>>>
> >>>> I guess my real question is what denotes a valid 
> Community Name?  
> >>>> Is
> >>> there a
> >>>> min/max length?  Limited valid characters?  Etc.?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Frank, can you tell me if there's a maximum length?  What 
> about valid 
> >> characters?  Actually, if you'd point me to the approriate 
> document 
> >> (RFC?, code?), I'd be happy to dig around and find out for myself.
> >>
> >> Does SNMP4J do any validation on CommunityTarget?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jamie Bisotti
> >>
> >>
> > Accidentally responded just to Frank instead of the mailing 
> list last 
> > time...Frank?  Anyone?  Thanks.
> > 
> 
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