> Dave> Wes - can you recall why the AgentX registration handling uses the > Dave> 'community' field of the PDU structure? Was it just Shield stupidity > Dave> again?
> wassnat me! > I don't know. OK - so we'll put it down to a Shield cock-up then. I know that I didn't get to grips with SNMPv3 contexts until long after the initial AgentX implementation. > Dave> What would be the implications of switching to use the > Dave> 'contextName' field instead? > I doubt you could switch Why not? The lowest level API for registering (or unregistering) an AgentX MIB region is agentx_register (or agentx_unregister) which takes the context as a parameter. It's the internals of this routine that copies it into the "community" field rather than "contextName". And then the agentX protocol routines use this to build the agentX header, which is internal again. At the other end, the agentX protocol routines parse this header and insert the context value into the "community" field. This is then used as a parameter to the MIB registry routines. When sending a GET* request, the master agent copies the MIB registration context string to the AgentX PDU community field before sending it (using the same agentX header protocol routines again). And the only other place where "community" appears is in the client-side handling of incoming requests, where the community string is explicitly moved to the 'contextName' field, before passing the request off to the main (sub)agent handling code. Explicitly correcting this mistake! So everywhere that this field is used is "internal" processing. I don't see where fixing this might break any user-visible behaviour. What have I missed? Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list Net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
