[cups.development] [RFE] STR #1590: snmp.conf should support broadcast address syntax too (e.g. "Address 10.162.4.255"), with CIDR

Kurt Pfeifle kpfeifle at danka.de
Sun Apr 23 05:13:33 PDT 2006


[STR New]

Currently, the snmp autodiscovery backend supports these address parameter
syntax variants:

     Address ip-address
     Address @LOCAL
     Address @IF(name)

I'd like to see these additional forms supported:

     Address x.y.z.255
     Address x.y.255.255
     Address x.255.255.255
     Address 255.255.255.255

This is similar to BrowseAddress in cupsd.conf.

(If the broadcast address would mean to go beyond a router/gateway [which
usually blocks broadcasts], is it then easily possible to translate at
least the first of the above lines into 254 single addresses meaning
"x.y.z.1-254", similar to the nmap syntax of addressing targets?)

Is it possible to support a syntax like

     Address x.y.3-4.1-255

as a shorthand for 

     Address x.y.3.1
     Address x.y.3.2
     [....]
     Address x.y.3.255
     Address x.y.4.1
     Address x.y.4.2
     [....]
     Address x.y.4.255

?

(Currently, all different Community names are tried in turn for each node;
is it possible to "group" certain community names to certain addresses?)

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1590
Version: 1.2-feature
Fix Version: 1.2-feature





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