in reply to Hex-String retrieval is unsuccesful on SNMP Walk form Perl

I too use Net::SNMP as offered above. You may have to try to unpack the hex string as a MAC address is simply a hex string. If it's stored that way, you'll get the "funny looking characters" if you try to print it without converting to ASCII first.

printf "%s\n", unpack ("H*", $HexStringMAC);

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Where $HexStringMAC above (obviously) contains the value of your returned Hex string that should be interpreted as a MAC address.

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Re^2: Hex-String retrieval is unsuccesful on SNMP Walk form Perl
by adamZ88 (Beadle) on Apr 12, 2016 at 19:33 UTC

    Vins, Thank you. I had previously tried unpacking, and I was getting the same result. I will try Net::SNMP eventually, but since I have quite a few scripts with SNMP_util, I wanted to stick with that, but like I said I cannot find any Documentation for it.

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      I updated my post with a link to SNMP-util, see if that helps.
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