Re: broadcast snmpv3 request

Hi,
Thanks Dave, and sorry about earlier!
Where can i get Thomas's patch? I didn't saw where he pointed me to it.

David

Dave Shield wrote:

>    [ First - *please* don't mail me privately, without copying
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>     or inclination to offer private, unpaid, SNMP consultancy.
>     Keep discussions to the list, where others can both learn
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>
>On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 11:44 +0200, David Peer wrote:
>  
>
>>But how can still if i want send a v3 packet to Bcast address?
>>Its disabled somewhere which i don't know ( mib? library? ).
>>    
>>
>
>It's not just a matter of disabling it.
>Handling an SNMPv3 request involves probing to determine the
>remote engine ID and boot information, before you can actually
>send the basic request.
>
>If you're broadcasting an SNMPv3 request, then you'll receive
>an avalanche of SNMPv3 REPORT responses, which will need to be
>inserted into the list of known engines, and then used to
>authenticate the real request for that particular system.
>
>  
>
>> I'm now trying to create my own v3 packet and send it to Bcast
>>address, but I want to know if someone already did/tried it.
>>    
>>
>
>Thomas has pointed you towards a possibly suitable patch.
>I haven't looked at this myself, but you (and the author) need
>to be aware that SNMPv3 is not a simple request-response protocol.
>
>Dave
>
>.
>
>  
>



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