Fong,

I think the use cases should be clearly defined,
and tests for them produced, before the Net-SNMP project
can consider changes to transport where
routing is a concern.

What platform OS are you using ? Not all platforms support
a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 and produce the same expectation.

What routing mechanisms do you use ?

If the agent is started using only IPv6 transport, why should
the IPv4 access control be used ?  e.g., it makes no sense
to me to have IPv6 transport mix with IPv4 access control.
Perhaps I'm not reading everything intended in the communication
which was received ?

-Mike S.


> 
> From: Robert Story (Coders) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/08/22 Sun PM 11:08:19 EDT
> To: "Fong Tsui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: IPv6 transport vs  IPv4 access control
> 
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:49:34 -0700 Fong wrote:
> FT> Currently if snmpd agent is launched on IPv6 transport, both IPv6 and IPv4
> FT> addresses can access it. However, access control in snmpd.conf
> FT> distinguishes between IPv6 (eg. rwcommunity6) and IPv4(eg. rwcommunity). If
> FT> snmpd is launched IPv6, for IPv4 access, access control needs to be defined
> FT> in IPv6 format, which is rwcommunity6 ::ffff:x.x.x.x.
> 
> Interesting... so if snmpd is started with udp6, it will receive packets
> addressed to an IPv4 address (a.b.c.d)? Or just an IPv6 format IPv4 address
> (::fff:a.b.c)?
> 
> FT> To me, if it is accessible for both IPv4 and IPv6, for IPv4, it should look
> FT> IPv4's access control(rwcommunity).
> 
> It is certainly debatable.  We'll have to wait and see what the everyone else
> thinks.
> 
> FT> Attached are changes for making IPv4 to read IPv4 access control.      
> 
> FT> Also set SO_REUSEADDR for socket bind.
> 
> This should be disabled by default, as it is in the ipv4 udp transport.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Story; NET-SNMP Junkie <http://www.net-snmp.org/>
> <irc://irc.freenode.net/#net-snmp>
> Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=net-snmp-coders>
> 
> You are lost in a twisty maze of little standards, all different. 
> 
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