[ net-snmp-Bugs-1404244 ] Handling "BITS" data types in SNMP.xs

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Bugs item #1404244, was opened at 2006-01-12 21:43
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Category: perl
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Andrew Teklemariam (andrew_abcd)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Handling "BITS" data types in SNMP.xs

Initial Comment:
Looking at the code in SNMP.xs __add_var_val_str 
function (V 5.2.2), it seems the BITS data type is 
handled as a character string.  If for example, I set 
the field to" 'FC000000', SNMP.xs sends an 8 byte 
character string to the agent.

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>Comment By: SourceForge Robot (sf-robot)
Date: 2009-08-16 02:20

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Comment By: Wes Hardaker (hardaker)
Date: 2009-02-16 21:21

Message:
Yeah, you should put real encoded raw octets into the function instead. 
You should be able to use perl's pack() function to convert hex to packed
binary if needed though, so it shouldn't be hard.

It would be nice, however, if we supported a bit specified method but we
don't at the moment.

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Comment By: Thomas Anders (tanders)
Date: 2006-01-12 21:49

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Are you willing to propose a patch?

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