[SNMP4J] PDU Encoding too big.

David Corbin dcorbin at zcorum.com
Thu Nov 13 12:31:40 CET 2014


That suggest to me that that there is something unusual (or maybe flawed)
about the remote Agent.  Is that a reasonable interpretation?


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
> This error is not related to the transport or IP layer. This is an error
> that is reported by the command responder when the received PDU is longer
> than the local constraints which might be any message length between 484
> and 65535 bytes.
>
> Best regards
> Frank
>
>
> Am 12.11.2014 um 14:31 schrieb David Corbin <dcorbin at zcorum.com>:
>
> > We've noticed our software is logging a bunch of PDU errors "PDU encoding
> > too big".  The ErrorStatus is always 1 and the ErrorIndex is 0.
> >
> > Can someone explain this error to me in more detail (or point me at a
> > resource to do so)?
> >
> > They're fairly frequent (15-20 an hour), given we've not seen them
> before.
> > We're certainly sending 10's of thousands if not an hour.  At this time,
> I
> > do not have enough context to say they're all related to a particular
> > device or anything like that. This IS on a network we've just solved a
> > problem with MTU and lost packets.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > David Corbin
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