Re: [tkined] SNMPv2c and security. Responder behavior.

From: Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 12:12:46 MET DST

>>>>> Collard Joseph writes:

Collard> Hello, I am using Tnm 3.0.0 to develop an agent (currently to
Collard> test manager applications ). The responder session is
Collard> configured with -version SNMPv2c -community xyz To test the
Collard> behavior of the agent, a manager generator session is
Collard> configured with -community ABC The behavior is as follows:
Collard> 1. The agent does not reply, and the manager local
Collard> synchronous reply is "noResponse 0 {}" (after the configured
Collard> retries ) 2. The SNMP engine within the agent "blocks" the
Collard> request, as it can be perceived by configuring "Tnm::snmp
Collard> watch 1 " and "$session bind recv a_script " and "$session
Collard> bind begin another_script" . Indeed, the events are not
Collard> triggered. My comment: A priori, I expected an error, such
Collard> as authorizationError or ?? My question: Is it the normal
Collard> behavior for a SNMPv2c agent ?.

Please reduce the problem to a very short demo script which can send
out so that we know precisely what you are trying to do.

And please, turn off HTML. Thanks.

/js 

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