Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] SNMP and OID parsing for eneterprises branch

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:10:34 -0800
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:03:56PM +0100, Lukasz Geleta wrote:
> does ethereal translated OID to strings for enterprises branch of MIB tree?

Yes, but only if you're running a release that's linked with an SNMP
library.

Releases linked with an SNMP library have some buffer overflows due to

	1) problems in the SNMP libraries themselves

and

	2) API limitations that prevent Ethereal from telling the SNMP
	   library not to overflow a buffer in Ethereal

so, in Ethereal 0.9.2, we do *NOT* link Ethereal with an SNMP library by
default.  (Earlier releases did link with an SNMP library by default.)

This may change in the next release - but if it does, we will require
UCD SNMP 4.2.2 or later (as earlier versions don't have the APIs we need
to avoid the buffer overflow problems).