>>>>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:44:13 +0200, Thomas Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

Thomas> -Coders,

Thomas> AFAICS the engineIDType still defaults to the custom (aka
Thomas> proprietary) ENGINEID_TYPE_UCD_RND (128) and the enterprise ID
Thomas> in the engineID is still UCD (2021=0x07e5) instead of Net-SNMP
Thomas> (8072=0x1f88). Is there a good reason for still doing so, even
Thomas> in CVS MAIN?

Because it was defined once and there is no real reason to change it?
It's not like anyone is going to look at that number and determine
"oh, you're talking to a ucd agent".  It's just a definition for the
data within...

Thomas> At least the following comment in snmplib/snmpv3.c seems to
Thomas> disagree slightly:

Thomas> if (localEngineIDType == ENGINEID_TYPE_UCD_RND)
Thomas> /*
Thomas> * we must use the net-snmp enterprise id here, regardless
Thomas> */
Thomas> memcpy(bufp, &ucdavisid, sizeof(ucdavisid));
Thomas> ...

Errr.....

Patches likely accepted?
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Sparta


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