#SNMP Design: The Puzzle of Zero
This post talks about the zeroes in SNMP protocol.
It is hard to translate .0.0 and .0 into bytes, isn’t it? According to AdventNet’s implementation, both of them should be translated to {0x06, 0x01, 0x00}. So is this the correct answer? If it is, now I have a good explanation for a long existing bug here (maybe it is resolved as .0 simply because .0 and .0.0 share the same bytes).
I think I need to borrow “Understanding SNMP MIBs” from a friend tomorrow to see if there were more details I simply ignored last time. Even though it is a great book, I don’t know if it can solve all questions I have (although most of them are gone).
Once this puzzle is resolved, I may have a chance to close two more bugs in the list. Stay tuned.
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