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: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:28:12 +0200
>>>>> Guy Harris writes:

Guy> Yes, that's obvious.

Guy> I'm not asking about that.

Guy> I'm asking about the code in "packet-snmp.c" that, in the code
Guy> after "case SNMP_VERSION_3:", does

[...]

>> For SNMPv3 messages, there currently only exists the user-based
>> security model.

Guy> In other words, the code I list above should, instead, be:

[...]

Yes.

Guy> as the *ONLY* value "msgsec" should have in that code, which is
Guy> dissecting SNMPv3 packets, should be SNMP_SEC_USM, as there only
Guy> exists the user-based security model.

Right.

/js

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