RE: [Linux-ia64] heads up: ucd-snmp 64-bit problem

[David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 07:50:41 -0500, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com said:

  >> I hope someone who's more familiar with SNMP can fix this.

  Matt> One of our server management guys has done a great deal of
  Matt> patching on this code.  In many many many places in the code,
  Matt> it's assumed that an IP address is a long, and it's not a
  Matt> simple change.

Yes, I have to say I was a bit shocked when I looked at the code.
Looks like straight from the seventies.  The code also ought to use
inet_aton() instead of inet_addr().

  Matt> You've basically got to track down everywhere an IP address
  Matt> value is used and fix it.  Given this is SNMP, that's a lot of
  Matt> places.  I'll forward this to him and see what can be done.

If he does work on this, could you ask him to cc any patches to
linux-ia64 so everybody can see them?

BTW: I think snmptrapd is suffering from similar problems.

Thanks,

	--david