Hi,
Lack of SNMPv3 availability in networking products is a serious
operational problem in the Internet today, IMHO.
A large number of networking vendors are telling @Home that the
vendor has difficulty in offering SNMPv3 because WindRiver won't take the
Epilogue SNMP Agent software (Epilogue is now owned by WindRiver
so that code would be the obvious choice) and port it across to VxWorks
(and for that matter, PSOS). VxWorks and PSOS are only available with
a SNMPv1/v2c agent even today, with no prospect for SNMPv3 anytime soon.
While theoretically anyone could port the code, in practice a lot
of the affected companies aren't big enough to have that amount of extra staff
lying around. By the way, this also means there is a market for
a pre-ported (to VxWorks/PSOS) version of any other SNMP code, if someone
is feeling like a capitalist.
If anyone here has the ear of anyone in management at WindRiver Systems,
it would be a public service to push them to get an SNMPv3 agent available to
their VxWorks customers ASAP. The downstream customer demand exists.
Sorry for the interruption and thanks for listening.
Ran
rja(_at_)inet(_dot_)org