I already know that the net-snmp agent assigns a pseudo-random Engine
ID, and that colliding Engine ID values is a Bad Thing.  However, I'm
dealing with some US Federal requirements that seem to open the door to
colliding Engine IDs:

"The SNMPv3 architecture shall be capable of allowing an appropriate
administrator to manually configure the snmpEngineID from the operator
console. A default unique snmpEngineID may be assigned to avoid
unnecessary administrative overhead, but this must be changeable." - DoD
Unified Capabilities Requirements 2008, sec 5.4.6.2.3 (h)2.

  Does the potential of a manually-configured collision warrant my
pushing back against this requirement?

  Thanks,

  Ron



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