Re: Setting the sender address in outgoing SNMP trap packets

If I do not set the value myself, I am unable to see
the value added by build_snmp_pdu call. The
documentation says this agent_addr is for v1 traps and
since I send out v2c traps, is it possible it is
ignoring this value.

Thanks.
/Shobana
--- Dave Shield <D.T.Shield@csc.liv.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:55, Shobana Sampath wrote:
> > When I try to set the agent-addr using the code
> below,
> > I get the following error:
>
> > I use the following code to add the agent-addr:
> > cp = asn_build_string(cp, out_length,
> > (u_char) (ASN_IPADDRESS |
> > ASN_PRIMITIVE),
> > (u_char *) pdu->agent_addr,
> 4);
>
> But why on earth are you messing about with the code
> to build the packet in the first place? The
> library
> already handles this. If you tell it to add the
> same
> value twice, then it's not surprising if it throws
> an error!
>
> All you have to do is set the required value
> in the 'agent_addr' field of the PDU structure.
> The library will do the rest.
>
> Dave
>
>



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