The facts, as stated, are simply not true.
SNMPv3 is ported and supported for both VxWorks and pSOS+. Prior to the
merger of Wind River and Integrated Systems (which owned Epilogue),
there was no SNMPv3 solution for VxWorks. But it is available today.
SNMPv3 has been available for pSOS+ for as long as Epilogue had an
SNMPv3 solution (about 18 months now).
Robb Swanson voice : 781-643-5222
Field Engineering Specialist fax : 781-643-5225
Wind River www : http://www.windriver.com
-----Original Message-----
From: RJ Atkinson [mailto:rja(_at_)inet(_dot_)org]
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 4:32 AM
To: ietf
Subject: SNMPv3 deployment & Wind River Systems
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