# (SNMP Library) Get\_Bulk timeout

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/snmp-library-get-bulk-timeout/68126>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 9, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/snmp-library-get-bulk-timeout/68126 "2006-09-09T13:42:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ebca7d/32.png) [@tobyr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tobyr)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/snmp-library-get-bulk-timeout/68126/1 "2006-09-09T13:42:46Z")

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Hi all,  
I appreciate this is a bit of a specialized request, but is anyone using  
the Get\_Bulk method of the manager class in Ruby SNMP 1.0.0 library? If  
so , do you find that there is a rather low limit on the number of  
values you can request for a single SNMP query (in the region of 50),  
above which you will just get a response timeout?

I suspect this might be an SNMP issue rather than a Ruby one, and I have  
an idea for a work round (ugly, but that’s the only type of code I  
write!), but before I go ahead I just wanted to see what others’  
experiences were.

regards  
Toby