Re: snmptapd SNMP version

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/3/4 Tomáš Harabin <[email protected]>:
> My SNMP device is sending traps, which have SNMPv3 version information in
> SNMP trap header. But it is not fully SNMPv3 trap, it has only that
> structure.

What do you mean by "it only has that structure"?

The difference between SNMPv2 requests and SNMPv3 requests
is effectively just in the SNMP "header".    The underlying SNMP
PDU is the same in both cases.
   This is sometimes called an SNMPv2 PDU, and should not be
confused with an SNMPv2c request (which is an SNMPv2 PDU
plus a community-based header).
   Similarly, an SNMPv3 request is actually an SNMPv2 PDU,
plus an SNMPv3-style header



The two headers are significantly different, and will affect the processing
quite dramatically.   (e.g. decoding an encrypted trap).


> My vendor argue with argument, that snmptrapd should be
> configured to receive traps as a SNMPv2c regardless
> SNMP trap header and structure.

My immediate reaction was that your vendor is wrong.
SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 are distinct protocols, and need
to be handled differently.

But it may well be that your vendor is referring to the internal
PDU rather than the full SNMP request.  In which case, they
are quite correct.

It's unclear exactly what problem you have got here.

Dave

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