Thank you Dave,
This is a 64 bit architecture issue and those are
good long and short term solutions.
-steve
>> I am having a problem with mibII entries that return an IpAdress,
>> as in the atTable and tcpConnTable. The management application is
>> complaining about the 8 byte values being returned.
>
>Is this on a 64-bit architecture system, by any chance?
>
>
>> Wondering what the best way to fix this would be or is the
>> management app incorrect by erroring when an 8 byte address value
>> is returned.
>
>No - the management application is quite correct to complain.
>It's expecting to receive a four-octet string value.
>
>The best way to fix this properly is for the agent to move away from
>using implicitly-sized types for numeric values ("long", "int",
>"long long", etc) and switch to using explicitly-sized types
>("int32", "int64" or whatever), with suitable typedefs for each
>architecture.
>
>That's perhaps a bit of a drastic change for this particular problem,
>but is likely to be the best long-term solution.
>
>In the short term, the easiest fix would probably be to replace the
>use of "long_return" in the solaris version of var_ipAddrEntry (and
>elsewhere) with a different variable, declared as a 32-bit integer.
>
>
>Dave
>
>
>
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