>>>>> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:53:37 -0800 (PST), "David T. Perkins" <[EMAIL 
>>>>> PROTECTED]> said:

David> Well, I certainly disagree with this! If the security level is
David> "noAuthNoPriv" then I believe that notifications should be
David> "accepted", but put in a "different" pile. For notifications
David> with security level of "authNoPriv" (and even "authPriv") where
David> there is no user, the "keys don't match", or the "clocks don't
David> match", I believe that they should be put in yet another pile.

You can have different things happen for different security levels.
However, we do drop packets from unconfigured communities/users now.
In fact, USM has always dropped unconfigured users (it's in the RFC
that if you don't have it in your user database you're supposed to
drop it regardless of the security level).

It is possible, now, though to specify that un-protected
(noAuthNoPriv equivalent) isn't allowed to do as much.  That's your
"different pile".

David> My motivation is that I believe that most of the time that the
David> "unacceptable" notifications are due to misconfiguration of
David> configuration data and not due to an attack, and the save
David> information is both useful in fixing the misconfiguration and
David> have useful "event information".

Run with -Dusm to get messages that were dropped because of a lack of
USM users existing.  Running with -Dvacm,usm,snmptrapd:auth will
probably give you the information you're looking for and could be
considered "another pile".

-- 
Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.


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