> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Dave Shield
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:59 AM
> On 30/01/2008, Buchupalli, Sasidevi
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, per RFC, can I summarize:
> >
> > For SNMPv1, if the community string is incorrect, the agent
> should send
> > an authenticationFailure Trap.
> > For SNMPv2c, if the community string is incorrect, the
> agent should send
> > an authenticationFailure Trap.
> But that is just my personal view. If you want a
> definitive indication
> of the expected status of authenticationFailure traps, you
> should probably
> contact the IETF SNMP working group (mostly defunct, but I believe the
> mailing list is still in operation). They will know the
> intentions of the
> protocol specs better than we do.
This much I can tell you - communities were never intended as an
authentication mechanism. They are, and always were intended to be, more like
SNMPv3's context than anything else, yet that seems to be the only thing they
don't get used for.
HTH,
Mike
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