Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: Ethereal-usersEthereal v0.10.3 dissection of SNMP Integer a

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From: Wes Hardaker <wjhns36@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:06:17 -0700
>>>>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:47:57 -0700 (PDT), prefab <pr3fab@xxxxxxxxx> said:

prefab> An SNMPv1 trap with a Varbind of type Integer and value of
prefab> 2147483648 (encoded as 02 05 00 80 00 00 00) ERROR: Couldn't
prefab> parse variable: wrong length for that item's type I don't
prefab> believe that there is a limitation for Integer types for
prefab> SNMPv1.

There is a limit (standard signed 32 bit range), but that value was
legal.  The encoding, however, not every parser can handle.
Apparently ethereal falls into that camp.

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Wes Hardaker
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