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...which means that if you enter an incomplete Object ID (OID) the SNMP library will "help" you and recurse down the tree until it finds something suitable. Obviously, the library might recurse too far and return something completely different. In order to protect from this, the function oid_compare() is present to filter out those cases. To make things worse, it seems to recurse onto next item if you provide it with a complete OID. As you might have guessed, this is not exactly foolproof. For example, instead of returning the number of output phases in our APC Silcon UPS it recurses a bi...