[AGENT++] 3.2.12 problem with a non-Agent++ agent

[Marek Malowidzki]

> > I attach a log trace. Could you please provide some explanations, what
could
> > be the reason for the problem. I assume that maybe this is my wrappers
(some
> > memory bugs?) or perhaps there were some changes between 3.2.11 and
3.2.12
> > in the SNMPv3 implementation?
>
> there weren't any changes that would explain this behaviour between
> 3.2.11 and 3.2.12.
>
> There is a roblem with "request id" in the third response:
>
> > MpCache: adding local entry[0], msg_id = 0x640002, reqID = 0x7a9d
>
> > receive_snmp_response requestID = 42, returning SUCCESS.
>
> The response has requestID 42 while the request had 0x7a9d. Therefore
> the event loop continues to wait for the response and resends the message.
>
> It is easy to change snmp++ to allow such responses [ remove the line
> "if ((!pdu->reqid) && (pdu->command == REPORT_MSG))" from mp_v3.cpp],
> but this is a bug in the agent.

Oh, so SNMPv3 message id is correct (which makes it possible to correlate
the response and request) but PDU's request id is incorrect... Interesting.
Indeed, seems to be a bug in the agent.

Thanks for the explanation.

Marek