From: Brian Candler <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-11T21:55:30+09:00
Subject: Re: SNMP detect Request Time out.

Jacob Su wrote in post #1068226:
> Dears,
>
> I've been search on the Internet for a while. But most people are
> discuss about how to fix the request time out issue.
>
> My purpose is to write a test to verified the situation that we use the
> Read-only community to configure the MIB object. so the expect behavior
> is that we'll get request timeout.
>
> Any suggestion how could I detect the request timeout message?
> I was using SNMP-1.1.0.

What does the library do today under these circumstances? Does it raise 
a Timeout::Error?

If so, you just test for that.

assert_raises(Timeout::Error) {
    ... do stuff with SNMP
}

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