Setting contextEngineId

[D. R. Evans]

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Hmmm... I duplicated what my colleague says he is doing (using UCD), and it 
seems to work just fine.

So I think that my question was perhaps premature and maybe the problem is 
operator error at the other end. Sorry.

  Doc Evans

On 22 Oct 2001 at 13:57, D. R. Evans wrote:

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> I have created an SNMPv3 agent using the examples as a template. I finally
> reached the point where everything seemed to be working fine. In particular,
> if I start the agent, I can then walk the MIB and manipulate my table
> entries using the SNMP++ snmpWalk example program.
> 
> However, when a colleague tries to remotedly walk the MIB from a non-SNMP++
> manager, he tells me:
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>  BUT, it appears that you are not setting the "pdu.contextEngineID" and
> "pdu.contextEngineIDlen" fields.  This would be appropriate if I were acting
> as a proxy, but I am not.  The message, therefore, is being rejected.
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> None of the examples seems to make any mention of setting the context
> engine, and I couldn't find anything in the archives. (And, as I say,
> snmpWalk doesn't seem to have any trouble walking the MIB without me having
> to define the contextEngineId explicitly.)
> 
> How do I set this so that my colleague's manager will not reject the
> packets?
> 
> We have agreed on the user and auth passwords, as well as the engineID
> (since he does not support discovery). He says that he can decrypt and
> authenticate the packets correctly. So I think that it is just the context
> Engine that is a problem for us now.
> 
>   Doc Evans
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D.R. Evans N7DR / G4AMJ                      N7DR at arrl.net

A dead lawyer in a Colorado ski resort and an Australian detective 
who doesn't play by the rules: 
   "All Or Nothing" is now available. 
See http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR/drevans.htp for details.
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