ipForwarding R/W ?

[Eugen]

Hi,   I’m trying to test the snmpset on ipForwarding OID and I get a “notWritable” error. The snmpget is working fine. See the details bellow:   snmpget -v2c -cxxx localhost ipForwarding.0 IP-MIB::ipForwarding.0 = INTEGER: notForwarding(2)   snmpset -v2c -cxxx localhost IP-MIB::ipForwarding.0 i 1 Error in packet. Reason: notWritable (That object does not support modification) Failed object: IP-MIB::ipForwarding.0   This is surprising since ipForwarding is defined in  IP-MIB as R/W object:   ipForwarding OBJECT-TYPE     SYNTAX      INTEGER {                     forwarding(1),    -- acting as a router                     notForwarding(2)  -- NOT acting as a router                 }     MAX-ACCESS  read-write     STATUS      current     DESCRIPTION             "The indication of whether this entity is acting as an IP             router in respect to the forwarding of datagrams received             by, but not addressed to, this entity.  IP routers forward             datagrams.  IP hosts do not (except those source-routed via             the host)."     ::= { ip 1 }   Could someone explain this behavior?   Thanks, Eugen