heads up: ucd-snmp 64-bit problem

Just a quick note: I discovered that there are some ugly 64-bit dirtiness issues in the UCD snmp package. It seems that Bill has fixed some of them already, but even with the "rawhide" version of ucd-snmp-utils, setting an IP address doesn't work. For example, a command along the lines of:

 $ snmpset aws110 public .enterprises.410.1.1.2.1.0 a 192.168.1.10

would fail because "snmpset" tries to write the IP address as an eight byte quantity. I hope someone who's more familiar with SNMP can fix this.

	--david

One of our server management guys has done a great deal of patching on this code. In many many many places in the code, it's assumed that an IP address is a long, and it's not a simple change. You've basically got to track down everywhere an IP address value is used and fix it. Given this is SNMP, that's a lot of places. I'll forward this to him and see what can be done.

Thanks for the info!
-Matt

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Matt> One of our server management guys has done a great deal of Matt> patching on this code. In many many many places in the code, Matt> it's assumed that an IP address is a long, and it's not a Matt> simple change.

Yes, I have to say I was a bit shocked when I looked at the code. Looks like straight from the seventies. The code also ought to use inet_aton() instead of inet_addr().

Matt> You've basically got to track down everywhere an IP address Matt> value is used and fix it. Given this is SNMP, that's a lot of Matt> places. I'll forward this to him and see what can be done.

If he does work on this, could you ask him to cc any patches to linux-ia64 so everybody can see them?

BTW: I think snmptrapd is suffering from similar problems.

Thanks,

	--david