Re: scotty-1.2.5 snmp walk bug

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Fri, 26 May 1995 11:45:31 +0200

Hi!

On Fri, 26 May 1995 09:53:34 +0100,
Icarus Sparry <ccsis@bath.ac.uk> said:

Icarus> A SNMPv1 session generates incorrect SNMP packets for a
Icarus> walk. In particular the error_index is not set to 0, which is
Icarus> required for SNMPv1. The following patch will fix it. Icarus

I don't see why this patch is needed. The mapping of getbulk requests
to getnext requests happens in SNMP_Encode() and the error_index field
is cleared there. Did you see any requests with an error_index != 0 on
the network (and if so please send me an example)?

Juergen