>>>>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:15:12 +0530, Manjit >>>>> <[email protected]> said:
M> Yes Wes ...i am trying to understand the concept. Ah. In that case I'd suggest writing to the SNMPv3 IETF Working Group mailing list (which still exists) and ask those sorts of questions there instead, because that's where the authors of the specification read things. M> As i read in RFC 3412: M> a. if reportable flag is 0 for a confirmed class of packets, then also M> the receiver should process it as though it had been set to 1. M> b . if reportable flag is 1 for a unconfirmed class of packets, then M> also the receiver should process it as though it had been set to 0. M> If this is the case then what is the purpose of keeping this flag ?? If you read the full 3412, it actually explains why it is needed: The reportableFlag is a secondary aid in determining whether a Report PDU MUST be sent. It is only used in cases where the PDU portion of a message cannot be decoded, due to, for example, an incorrect encryption key. If the PDU can be decoded, the PDU type forms the basis for decisions on sending Report PDUs. IE, sometimes you don't know the class of the PDU because it's encrypted. -- Wes Hardaker Please mail all replies to [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
