JMX Problem - Retriving Physical Address (MAC)

Question

Hello Everybody,
I am working in a class that has to poll information from a router using SNMP protocol and I am using JMX's API
specification, for all the scalars and values that have a string representation works well, but when I am polling
the information from the MAC address - which is represented in Hexadecimal format I retrieve a Variable Binding
with IOD and Value, where the value is complete wired, I do not know why I can not represent the value since the
method I am trying to use cast it to String, I really tried different appoaches and also other clases like Vector
or List for solve the problem but seems that the value has not been interpreted in the correct way, and that's why
I would like to hear if someboday has been experienced the same situation and what suggestions you can offer to me
for solve the problem.
Thanks,
Al
//Code definitions for variables and declarations
final SnmpVarBindList Iteratorlist = new SnmpVarBindList("SyncManager varbind list");
for (int j=1; j<=i; j++)
Iteratorlist.addVarBind("1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.6." + j);
SnmpRequest requestIterator = session1.snmpGetRequest(null, Iteratorlist);
//... Code for validate complete request and errors, etc.
final SnmpVarBindList resultIterator = requestIterator.getResponseVarBindList();
for (int j=0; j<resultIterator.getVarBindCount(); j++)
SnmpVarBind bind2 = resultIterator.getVarBindAt(j);
println(">>Val " + bind2.getStringValue());
println(">>ValStr " + bind2.getStringValue().toString());
println(">>Length " + bind2.getStringValue().length());
// ... code for other manipulations

Answer 1

Just to be sure ....you know bytes are NOT characters in java?
From your posting it is not clear if you are having a problem converting a binary value to a string value, or if you are having trouble getting to the value at all.
Keep in mind that the "SNMP protocol" in of itself is almost worthless in describing the format of the data that you will get back. A MIB of course is much more useful.
Normally I would expect an octet string for a MAC address.