Re: snmpEngineBoots

HI,

You didn't include the case I sent you. That is, when you are
using noAuth/noPriv, the value in a request is not verified by
the "agent", and a value of zero, is a nice choice. 

At 06:40 PM 5/6/2003 -0700, Ann Lo wrote:
>Thanks much for the informative replies from C.M. Heard, Randy Presuhn, and David Perkins. 
>
>In case this might be useful, a summary of answers to my questions are: 
>    * msgAuthoritativeEngineBoots is 0 in a Request message when the authoritative engine id is empty. 
>        * rfc3414 (USM) Section 3.1 (6) (c) 
>    * snmpEngineBoots starts from the value 1 when the SNMP agent is up and running. 
>Regards, 
>Ann 

Regards,
/david t. perkins