Re: snmpEngineBoots

"Randy Presuhn" <[email protected]> Mon, 5 May 2003 16:55:48 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.snmpv3
Message-ID <001501c31361$d9e7abe0$7f1afea9@oemcomputer>
Hi -

> From: "Ann Lo" <[email protected]>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 4:13 PM
> Subject: Re: snmpEngineBoots
...
> Interpretation of snmpEngineBoots in this way appears fine. But then, shouldn't
> msgAuthoriativeEngineBoots start from 1 instead of 0?
>
> Presently rfc3414 (USM) says
> UsmSecurityParameters ::=
>    ...
>    msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots INTEGER (0..2147483647),
>    msgAuthoritativeEngineTime INTEGER (0..2147483647),
...

Section 3.1 (6) (c) describes the special case when zero appears
in this protocol field.

Randy