Hello Dave,

That was quick and very informative. I will go through the RFCs again. Thanks.

Regards,
Ashok

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Dave Shield <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25 October 2011 13:17, ashok kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> While I am trying snmpset with -v1 and -v2c, I am getting different
>> reasons for errors.....
>>
>> Why am I getting noSuchName for -v1?
>
> Because that is the defined behaviour for SNMPv1.
> See RFC 1157, section 4.1.5, step (1)
>
>
>>             I believe the error reason should be noAccess as
>> in the -v2 case.
>
> Except that 'noAccess' is not one of the SNMPv1 error reasons.
>
> From the definition of PDU in the same RFC (section 5):
>
>          PDU ::=
>                  SEQUENCE {
>                     request-id
>                          INTEGER,
>
>                      error-status      -- sometimes ignored
>                          INTEGER {
>                              noError(0),
>                              tooBig(1),
>                              noSuchName(2),
>                              badValue(3),
>                              readOnly(4),
>                              genErr(5)
>                          },
>
> Those are the only possible error responses.
> 'noAccess' is not one of them.
>
> This was one of the changes introduced with SNMPv2
>
> Dave
>

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