Re: unknown asn1 type 0x15

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dpatil> I'm using scotty 2.1.4 on Novell-Unixware 2.1,
dpatil> When I make queries to my agent from HP Openview (MIB-II queries),
dpatil> on some queries I get error 'unknown asn1 type 0x15'. Has anybody
dpatil> encountered this before?

dpatil> I looked through the code, apparently, '0x15' does not map to any
dpatil> data type in asn1. Is there any data type that is not supported
dpatil> by scotty?

0x15 is [UNIVERSAL 21] which is according to my ASN.1 documents type
VideotexString. This type is not allowed in SNMP as far as I know. If
your agent is sending varbinds with ASN.1 type VideotexString, then
your agent is broken.
Juergen

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