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- From: karl@empirical.com (Karl Auerbach)
- Subject: Re: ShareWare NMS machine for SNMP.
- Message-ID: <karl.37.725592903@empirical.com>
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- Organization: Empirical Tools and Technologies
- References: <1992Dec21.124629.19662@minerva1.bull.it>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:35:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.124629.19662@minerva1.bull.it> fra@minerva1.bull.it (Iarlori Francesco) writes:
- >From: fra@minerva1.bull.it (Iarlori Francesco)
- >Subject: ShareWare NMS machine for SNMP.
- >Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 12:46:29 GMT
- >
- > Someone knows where I can find an NMS shareware version to test
- > my Agent Machine in an SNMP Network ?
-
- Be warned that bugs lurk in many of the unsupported, freely available
- SNMP engines.
-
- Make sure that your code properly ASN.1/BER encodes counters/gauges/timeticks
- (i.e. the unsigned things) properly when the 32nd bit (the sign bit on 32-
- bit integers) is set. It should take *5* octets length do this, not 4 as in
- some code.
-
- Also check that get next really works. It should be able to take *any* oid,
- whether or not that oid represents a variable, and finds the sucessor (or
- end of the mib.)
-
- Also check that your strings (e.g. sysDescr) are real NVT, i.e. that if
- there are multiple lines that the lines are separated by CR LF, not merely
- LF. And don't send any trailing nulls.
-
- --karl--
-