Re: maximum length of SNMP payload

[Niels B. <ni...@ba...>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 04:15:22PM +0100, Dave Shield wrote:
> 
> 
> > When I do "snmpset" to a "DisplayString" type OID with about 880-890
> > bytes string, the operation will make the agent crashed.
> 
> Which architecture is this?
> I've just tried it with my system (RedHat Linux), and things are quite
> happy with a string up to about 2400 characters.   Somewhere above that
> the library start to complain, and the *snmpget* command crashes.
>   But the agent keeps chugging merrily on.

What object is this? It must be some missing length check for that object.

By the way, a DisplayString in itself has a size limitation of 0..255
octets -- but that has nothing to do with the maximum size of any SNMP
payload.

/Niels

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