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

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From: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 11:13:03 +0200 (CEST)
Hi Juergen,

> Guy> In other words, the code I list above should, instead, be:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Yes.

That was me misreading the RFC then... I believed when coding the SNMPv3
dissector that SNMP proxy services could choose to encode the community
string this way when doing a translation between SNMPv3 and SNMPv1 /
SNMPv2c.

> 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.

Point taken.

Cheers,
Jochen