Errors in the standards
Eric Schekkerman <schekker@cs.utwente.nl> Tue, 13 April 1993 13:49 UTC
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Subject: Errors in the standards
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From: Eric Schekkerman <schekker@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 11:12:55 +0200
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After carefully re-studying the documents I discovered some errors. First of all there is a minor typo: * adminv2-03, page 18: snmpStatsPacket should be snmpStatsPackets In addition I encountered the following inconsistencies in the proposed standards: * The snmpStatsSilentDrops counter is never used. I.e. the protocol does not specify when this counter should be incremented. * Section 3.2 of the adminv2-03 standard covers the processing of a received communication. Steps 15 and 16 cover all classes except class 64 (Inform). If I understand it correclty, class 64 should be included in step 16. Furthermore, I believe the description of the snmpStatsBadOperations counter should indicate that the referred operation was not allowed because it didn't match the requested role of the entity (i.e. the agent role). (And because of that it is not allowed by the entry in the aclTable.) Any comments? --- Eric Schekkerman ---
- Errors in the standards Eric Schekkerman