Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] packet-snmp.c patch to handle zero length context names

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From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:22:41 +0200
>>>>> Guy Harris writes:

Guy> 	the msgSecurityParameters field in SNMPv3 packets using the
Guy> SNMP V1 or SNMP V2C security model (RFC 2261 says a security
Guy> model of 1 is "reserved for SNMPv1" and 2 is "reserved for
Guy> SNMPv2c"; are those models documented anywhere, or are they still
Guy> reserved?);

There is some confusion here. The community based security model is
not used with the SNMPv3 message format. 

In fact, the community based security model is a way to fit widely
deployed SNMPv1/SNMPv2c into the SNMP architecture. The architecture
thus covers SNMPv1/SNMPv2c/SNMPv3 as it should be. 

The community based security model is defined in RFC 2576.

/js

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