>>>>> "JS" == Juergen Schoenwaelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JS> a) your say IPv4 or MAC addresses in your managed domain are not JS> unique (e.g. you are managing boxes behind NATs or you make JS> creative use of assigning MAC addresses), or JS> b) your managed devices pickup random addresses dynamically (e.g. IPv4 JS> addresses via DHCP) and you want to ensure that the engine JS> identification remains unique in your domain or during a JS> renumbering exercise. JS> I guess most people do not really care and simply use whatever the JS> SNMP implementation does to produce a value. FYI Juergen, The Net-SNMP package has a 3rd-party mechanism for generating engineIDs specifically to avoid the above problems (and in fact, we did get reports of real-world collisions when we were using the IPv4 engineID derivation; we haven't gotten any reports since shifting to a method using both random data and time). -- Wes Hardaker Sparta, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
