RFC 3416, "Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)", December 2002

Errata ID: 2757
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Mikhail Kulinich
Date Reported: 2011-03-27
Verifier Name: Dan Romascanu
Date Verified: 2011-08-03

Section 3 says:

PDU ::= SEQUENCE {
           request-id INTEGER (-214783648..214783647),

           error-status                -- sometimes ignored
               INTEGER {
                   noError(0),
                   tooBig(1),
                   noSuchName(2),      -- for proxy compatibility
                   badValue(3),        -- for proxy compatibility
                   readOnly(4),        -- for proxy compatibility
                   genErr(5),
                   noAccess(6),
                   wrongType(7),
                   wrongLength(8),
                   wrongEncoding(9),
                   wrongValue(10),
                   noCreation(11),
                   inconsistentValue(12),
                   resourceUnavailable(13),
                   commitFailed(14),
                   undoFailed(15),
                   authorizationError(16),
                   notWritable(17),
                   inconsistentName(18)
               },

           error-index                 -- sometimes ignored
               INTEGER (0..max-bindings),

           variable-bindings           -- values are sometimes ignored
               VarBindList
       }

   BulkPDU ::=                         -- must be identical in
       SEQUENCE {                      -- structure to PDU
           request-id      INTEGER (-214783648..214783647),
           non-repeaters   INTEGER (0..max-bindings),
           max-repetitions INTEGER (0..max-bindings),

           variable-bindings           -- values are ignored
               VarBindList
       }

It should say:

PDU ::= SEQUENCE {
           request-id INTEGER (-2147483648..2147483647),
           error-status                -- sometimes ignored
               INTEGER {
                   noError(0),
                   tooBig(1),
                   noSuchName(2),      -- for proxy compatibility
                   badValue(3),        -- for proxy compatibility
                   readOnly(4),        -- for proxy compatibility
                   genErr(5),
                   noAccess(6),
                   wrongType(7),
                   wrongLength(8),
                   wrongEncoding(9),
                   wrongValue(10),
                   noCreation(11),
                   inconsistentValue(12),
                   resourceUnavailable(13),
                   commitFailed(14),
                   undoFailed(15),
                   authorizationError(16),
                   notWritable(17),
                   inconsistentName(18)
               },

           error-index                 -- sometimes ignored
               INTEGER (0..max-bindings),

           variable-bindings           -- values are sometimes ignored
               VarBindList
       }

   BulkPDU ::=                         -- must be identical in
       SEQUENCE {                      -- structure to PDU
           request-id      INTEGER (-2147483648..2147483647),
           non-repeaters   INTEGER (0..max-bindings),
           max-repetitions INTEGER (0..max-bindings),

           variable-bindings           -- values are ignored
               VarBindList
       }

Notes:

Consider the following dump as a Response to a Get Request:

Received 125 bytes from UDP: [127.0.0.1]:161->[0.0.0.0]
0000: 30 7B 02 01 03 30 11 02 04 5B 70 9B 75 02 03 00 0{...0...[p.u...
0016: FF E3 04 01 01 02 01 03 04 2E 30 2C 04 0D 80 00 ..........0,....
0032: 1F 88 80 82 0B 53 2D 67 01 8A 4D 02 01 01 02 03 .....S-g..M.....
0048: 02 7B 92 04 03 77 65 73 04 0C DF 8B 2A FE 4A C5 .{...wes....*.J.
0064: 4C 33 63 A6 2C C8 04 00 30 33 04 0D 80 00 1F 88 L3c.,...03......
0080: 80 82 0B 53 2D 67 01 8A 4D 04 00 A2 20 02 04 67 ...S-g..M... ..g
0096: DB 56 C4 02 01 00 02 01 00 30 12 30 10 06 0A 2B .V.......0.0...+
0112: 06 01 02 01 5C 01 01 01 00 42 02 03 E8 ....\....B...

NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB::nlmConfigGlobalEntryLimit.0 = Gauge32: 1000

It was produced with the following command:
$ snmpget -v3 -n "" -c public -u wes -a md5 -A setup_passphrase -l authNoPriv -d localhost nlmConfigGlobalEntryLimit.0

While decoding (with my own tool) the message above, I met a constraint error with ASN.1 describing SNMPv3 message.
The actual issue with request-id parameter inside PDU & BulkPDU definitions.

Received value (from dump):
request-id = 1742427844

ASN.1:
request-id INTEGER (-214783648..214783647)

You can see that may be in number = 214783647, 4 is missed. I.e.: should be the following: 2147_4_83647

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Verifier Note:

There is indeed an error in the RFC, but the "correction" text is also incorrect.
The two changes needed are:

OLD:
request-id INTEGER (-214783648..214783647),
NEW:
request-id INTEGER (-2147483648..2147483647),

OLD:
request-id INTEGER (-214783648..214783647),
NEW:
request-id INTEGER (-2147483648..2147483647),

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