Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] snmp asn1 counter64

[Breen Mullins <bmullins@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 00:33, markus.carlstedt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Does anyone know why the SNMP_COUNTER64 type
> has to be 8 bytes in length? See code below
> taken from "packet-snmp.c"
> 
> I cannot find this requirement in the SNMP RFCs.
> I thought the ASN1 code only took up the space
> it needed.

Table A-4 in Dave Perkins' _Understanding_SNMP_MIBs_ states
that the minimum encoded length is 1 and the maximum 9 bytes.
(Or 3 to 11 for the entire TLV tuple.)

Breen
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