Re: Failed sending V3 traps with auth using snmpNotifyTable
Michael Kirkham <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Dave Shield wrote: > On 25/01/07, Michael Kirkham <[email protected]> wrote: >> > [SNMP_FLAGS_DONT_PROBE] should work to prevent probing a trap-only >> > target and postpone probing >> > of inform targets until an inform is sent. It wouldn't (alone) >> completely >> > fix the issue of the traps being sent with the wrong Engine ID. If the >> target >> > has a TagList whose tags indicate both informs and traps are to be sent, >> then >> > it would still probe later and then use the Engine ID from the probe, >> cached >> > in the session, to send the trap. >> >> FYI - added some debugging output, and snmpv3_build() is indeed where the >> Engine ID of the trap is getting set to that of the management station, >> from the session, because it is not yet assigned in pdu->securityEngineID. > > Ummm... > One possibility would certainly be to have two session fields in the > snmpNotify{Mumble} structure. > An alternative might be to explicitly set the pdu->securityEngineID > in the PDU template when sending a trap. > > [Again, without looking at the code. Not sure how practical that would > be in reality] Sure, I think one of my suggestions for fixing it was to do that in send_trap_to_sess(), since that's where the template pdu gets duplicated prior to doing session-specific stuff to it. Maybe I should just submit a patch that does that as a suggested solution. Only reason I didn't do so is there are a bunch of feasible approaches to fixing it and I'm not sure what would be most acceptable. :) But, ah, what the heck: patch # 1644280 submitted. Works for me. -- Michael Kirkham President & CEO Muonics, Inc. http://www.muonics.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users