RFC 1448 (rfc1448) - Page 1 of 35
Protocol Operations for version 2 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
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Network Working Group J. Case
Request for Comments: 1448 SNMP Research, Inc.
K. McCloghrie
Hughes LAN Systems
M. Rose
Dover Beach Consulting, Inc.
S. Waldbusser
Carnegie Mellon University
April 1993
Protocol Operations
for version 2 of the
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2)
Status of this Memo
This RFC specifes an IAB standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the
"IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization
state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo
is unlimited.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction .......................................... 2
1.1 A Note on Terminology ............................... 2
2 Overview .............................................. 3
2.1 Roles of Protocol Entities .......................... 3
2.2 Management Information .............................. 3
2.3 Access to Management Information .................... 4
2.4 Retransmission of Requests .......................... 4
2.5 Message Sizes ....................................... 5
2.6 Transport Mappings .................................. 6
3 Definitions ........................................... 7
4 Protocol Specification ................................ 12
4.1 Common Constructs ................................... 12
4.2 PDU Processing ...................................... 12
4.2.1 The GetRequest-PDU ................................ 13
4.2.2 The GetNextRequest-PDU ............................ 15
4.2.2.1 Example of Table Traversal ...................... 16
4.2.3 The GetBulkRequest-PDU ............................ 18
4.2.3.1 Another Example of Table Traversal .............. 21
4.2.4 The Response-PDU .................................. 22
4.2.5 The SetRequest-PDU ................................ 23
4.2.6 The SNMPv2-Trap-PDU ............................... 26
4.2.7 The InformRequest-PDU ............................. 27
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5 Acknowledgements ...................................... 29
6 References ............................................ 33
7 Security Considerations ............................... 35
8 Authors' Addresses .................................... 35
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