SNMP v1,v2c and v3 trap difference

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Kanagavelu Sugumar picture Kanagavelu Sugumar · Dec 30, 2011 · Viewed 42.8k times · Source

Explain the difference between v1, v2c and v3 Traps PDU/format.

Answer

Lex Li picture Lex Li · Jan 3, 2012

This requires you to go through the RFC documents, which means this is not programming related, and probably belongs to ServerFault.

Give you some hints:

  1. SNMP v1 defines a special TRAP message format, different from other messages (such as GET). http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1157#page-27 This message format is not used any more in SNMP v2 and v3. If an SNMP agent sends out such TRAP messages for v2 or v3, that can be a bug.
  2. Since v2, TRAP starts to use the common message format (the same as GET and so on). So it is called SNMPv2-Trap-PDU. http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc3416#page-22
  3. SNMP v3 introduces the security model to all messages, so TRAP receives such update too. It is still based on SNMPv2-Trap-PDU.

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