Re: max. length of userName and contextSelector
"glenn (g.) waters" <gwaters@bnr.ca> Wed, 06 September 1995 21:54 UTC
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From: "glenn (g.) waters" <gwaters@bnr.ca>
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Subject: Re: max. length of userName and contextSelector
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In article <199509061540.RAA19755@data.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>, <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote: > Hi! > > The maximum length of the userName and the contextSelector has changed > in the latest USEC draft (draft-kzm-snmpv2-sec-alt-01.txt). Are there > any technical reasons why the userName is now 1..16 octets while the > contextSelector is 0..40 octets? yes. to be able to use contextSelector and userName as indices for some of the tables in the remote config mib. the longer versions of these objects would have made the oid too long to fit into a minimum size packet. /gww -- /Glenn Waters, gwaters@bnr.ca, Bell-Northern Research Ltd., +1 613 763 3933
- max. length of userName and contextSelector Juergen Schoenwaelder
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