[SNMP4J] PDU Encoding too big.

[Frank Fock]

Hi David,
It could be a flaw, but most likely it is simply a hardware limitation. In that case, the command generator should send less variable bindings at once to the agent.

Best regards,
Frank

Am 13.11.2014 um 12:31 schrieb David Corbin <dcorbin at zcorum.com>:

> 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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