Re: Problem with scotty

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Malcom> Unfortunately, when a large proportion of our network is
Malcom> disabled, the request id of one session can catch up with
Malcom> another and thus a reply is posted to a wrong requestor.

Oops, what a stupid bug! I just wrote a small function which generates
unique randomized request ids and hacked to code in tnmSnmpTcl.c to
call this function whenever a request id is needed. This will fix the
problem in the 2.2.0 release. Many thanks for making me aware of this
problem.
Juergen

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