Description: Table of SNMP management clients.

Authentic SNMP clients are identified by a combination community name and IP address.

Upon receipt of an SNMP request, this table is scanned for a matching community name. If an entry containing a matching community name is found, the entry's IP access list, if nonzero, is used to validate the source IP address received in the request; else, if the IP access list number in the matching entry is zero, the source IP address is accepted.

Finally, the type of SNMP request is validated with respect to the access privilege of the matching entry (e.g. a SET Request is rejected for an entry having read-only privilege).

Use of this table constitutes 'trivial authentication', i.e., no mechanism is employed to confirm the received SNMP request was indeed originated by the host identified by the IP source address.