Re: USM engineID and the snmpd engineID?

Thomas Anders <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dana Burns wrote:
> So by using the system clock, does the engineID change at each boot?

Of course not. The system clock is used as one source during the
*initial* generation of the engineID. Once it has been generated, it's
persistent.

> I can still authenticate if I use the -e option on the command line using
> the engineID that was set at the time the user was created. Is that a bug
> or a feature?

Feature.


+Thomas

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