Re: read_objid() capability to interpret strings

[Frank S. <st...@ib...>]

Frank> Is it intentional that the configuration of views in snmpd.conf
Frank> can no longer include strings in the OID field? I was very
Frank> happy to use something like

Wes> I think this was recently fixed (just after 4.2.pre2).  Can you check
Wes> the absolute latest cvs snapshot?

Wes> % ./snmptranslate -IR snmpTargetAddrTDomain.\"blue\"
Wes> .1.3.6.1.6.3.12.1.2.1.2.98.108.117.101

Right. This works. But...

Wes> However (Niels), it doesn't seem to work genericly, which is a
Wes> problem (even if its illegal and doesn't make sense...  We shouldn't
Wes> force the requirement of knowledge about the mib in question):

Wes> 8:24am wanderer [189]: ./snmptranslate -IR system.\"blue\"
Wes> Unknown object identifier: system."blue"

Yes. This seems to be my problem. In case of VACM configurations we
would need the generic behavior.