Re: question on key localizaton

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.snmpv3
Organization Network Associates Laboratories
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:21:57 -0500, Uri Blumenthal <[email protected]> said:

Uri> The only correct fix that I see right now is to make the agent
Uri> authoritative engine always... Anybody remembers why we didn't
Uri> see such a simple problem and didn't address it way before?

Uri> One of us is missing something. The question is - who and what? (:-)
>> 
>> It's you ;->

Uri> Yeah... I wish this was brought up earlier.

Uri> Are you 100% sure it's so with authoritative engines...?

[and previously:]

Uri> Sheesh!

I'd think that you'd know your own document better than someone who
has really read it only about once.  Sheesh!

Section 1.5.1 of your document states:
   
   When an SNMP message contains a payload which expects a response
   (those messages that contain a Confirmed Class PDU [RFC2571]), then
   the receiver of such messages is authoritative.

And just to help you out a bit more, RFC2571 section 2.8, point 6:

   6) Confirmed Class:

      The Confirmed Class contains all protocol operations which
      cause the receiving SNMP engine to send back a response.  For
      example, RFC 1905 defines the following operations for the
      Confirmed Class:  GetRequest-PDU, GetNextRequest-PDU,
      GetBulkRequest-PDU, SetRequest-PDU, and InformRequest-PDU.

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Wes Hardaker
Network Associates Laboratories
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