Re: SNMP V3 key change

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization Sparta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:40:22 +0100, Thomas Anders <[email protected]> said:

>> 2) there is no assurance that the keychange SET itself will fail if
>> it is messed up or fails for some reason and every SET after it
>> would fail because it would be using the newer key.

Thomas> Can you elaborate on this, please? Are you saying that there
Thomas> are circumstances under which the RESPONSE to the SET would
Thomas> indicate an error status 0 (zero, no error) even though the
Thomas> key hasn't been changed?  I'm probably misreading this, so
Thomas> please clarify.

No, I'm saying that the error status may indeed *not* be 0 because
something in the SET failed and the agent didn't accept any of the
varbinds, even the keychange if it would have succeeded otherwise.


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Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.


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