Re: engineIDType = ENGINEID_TYPE_NETSNMP_RND

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization Sparta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:50:11 +0530, sanjaykumar <[email protected]> said:

s> Actually I am getting wrong engine TIME in wireshark capture
s> I am reading the engine Time using the function 
s> "snmpv3_local_snmpEngineTime()"
s> While I was debugging the code I had the some doubt, It might be 
s> engineType which affecting it.

I'm not sure why wireshark would be having issues.  It has nothing to do
with the format of the EngineID though.  Wireshark should be ambivalent
about it.

The important thing about EngineIDs is that:

1) they must be unique.  A manager will get confused if two devices on
   the network contain the same ID.
2) if an engineID on a device changes, it's likely a running manager
   will get confused until it restarts.

One of the whole reasons that Net-SNMP uses the engine ID type it does
is to avoid conflicts that many of the other types of engineID creation
schemes can run into.
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Cobham Analytic Solutions

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