Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 217.20.22.66]
on February 14, 2008 05:20 PM
<quote>the long string '.1.3.6.1.4.1.20916.1.2.1.1.5.0' is the address of the variable on the device that we wish to read</quote>
That's not an address, it's an ASN.1 OID. They're assigned hierarchically but they aren't really addresses - stripping off the last few components wouldn't be a meaningful request, for example.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 217.20.22.66] on February 14, 2008 05:20 PMThat's not an address, it's an ASN.1 OID. They're assigned hierarchically but they aren't really addresses - stripping off the last few components wouldn't be a meaningful request, for example.
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