SNMP v2

• SNMP security protocols are defined is RFC-1352 (July, 1992)

• SNMP v2 is defined and discussed in RFCs 1441 through 1450 and 1452 (April, 1993)

• SNMP v2 adds e.g. the following to v1:

  • Security
    • MD-5 authentication
    • DES encryption
  • Two new operations
    • Inform for informing other managers about events
    • Get-bulk for retrieving large data blocks
  • Support for several new data types
  • Support for OSI NSAP addresses
  • 64-bit counter data type
  • Unsigned integer data type

• The same PDU format is used for all SNMP v2 messages

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