Re: Quick SNMP Payload Structure Question

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 05:46:09 GMT, Eric Brandwine said:

> This is a well documented (if somewhat dense) standard. Go to the
> official docs, rather than trying to reverse engineer it. I've read
> the docs, and you'll never figure it out. There's some odd stuff in
> BER. That's why so many vendors have so much trouble decoding it
> safely.

How many vendors tried to implement BER and related stuff without reading
the 'Implementors Workshop' documents (or whatever they called the errata and
explanations and "We've decided to read the unclear standard THIS way" stuff)?