On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:56:01 +0200 Vesa wrote:
VJ> In meanwhile I hacked in custom version of net-snmp where I just added 
VJ> additional export for netsnmp_udp_com2SecList_free.
VJ> 
VJ> With this I was able to do what I needed to do.
VJ> 
VJ> Problem in the use case is that device is embedded devices and we prefer 
VJ> not to keep rootfs as read/write. We have configuration storage system 
VJ> that has better endurance for power loss.
VJ> 
VJ> Standard that we need to implement includes live modification of 
VJ> authentication data over SNMP (don't ask...).
VJ> 
VJ> I could try to hack in a patch which would unify udp/udpv6/tcp community 
VJ> "authentication" under one API if that is within project's interest?
VJ> 
VJ> Currently it seems that udp and tcp community "authentication" shares 
VJ> same mechanism and for some reason udpv6 is having own management.
VJ> 
VJ> Simplest solution is to just export netsnmp_udp_com2SecList_free. I can 
VJ> also send patch for that if there is interest for that solution.

Sending to the list is good. Submitting a patch to the patch database is
better. :-)

Robert

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