RE: SNMPv3 UCD and router (CISCO)

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 08:15 -0400, Kostia Grebelsky wrote:
>                                            However, the way
> I understood it EngineID is of the authoritative end

correct.

>  which is the system that does Get

not correct.
The authoritative engine for most SNMP requests is
the request *responder* - i.e. the agent in this case.
See RFC 3414, section 1.5.1




>  Are you saying engineID is not set but rather is something that
> is figured by both UCD library for me and the router on the other end?

No.
The engineID is set by the router, and discovered by the client library.


> The only user settings are the algorithm used, USER and passphrases?

Yup.
(And the algorithm must match that chosen when the user was
first set up on the router).

Dave


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