RE: SNMP v3 - Authentication - Report PDU/Trap

> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Karthick Babu
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:45 PM

> RFC 3414, section 3.2 (Processing an Incoming SNMP Message), 
> point no. 6 says as follows :
> 
> ....
> ....
> 
> If the authentication module returns failure, then the message
> 
>        cannot be trusted, so the usmStatsWrongDigests counter is
> 
>        incremented and an error indication (authenticationFailure)
>        together with the OID and value of the incremented counter is
> 
>        returned to the calling module.
> 
> ....
> 
> ....
> In the above statement, does 'error indication' means sending 
> the 'report pdu' or the 'authentication failure trap' to the 
> calling module? 
> 
> My understanding is sending the report pdu only.

	Correct.  The authentication failure trap is part of v1, not v3.


	HTH,

Mike

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