Re: snmp over tcp

2009-12-04 Thread Dave Shield
2009/12/3 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com: And is there some particular reason you'd want to do this [SNMP-over-TCP]?  Seems like a bad idea if your network is unreliable and not needed if it is. At the risk of aggravating Mike's blood pressure (and/or olfactory receptors), you might like to

RE: snmp over tcp

2009-12-04 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Dave Shield [mailto:d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:35 AM 2009/12/3 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com: And is there some particular reason you'd want to do this [SNMP-over- TCP]?  Seems like a bad idea if your network is unreliable and not needed if

Re: snmp over tcp

2009-12-04 Thread Les Mikesell
Mike Ayers wrote: From: Dave Shield [mailto:d.t.shi...@liverpool.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:35 AM 2009/12/3 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com: And is there some particular reason you'd want to do this [SNMP-over- TCP]? Seems like a bad idea if your network is unreliable

Re: snmp over tcp

2009-12-04 Thread Dave Shield
2009/12/4 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com: I'm too lazy to do the math, but those graphs look fairly predictable just from the number of packets and retry times involved - at least considering the syn retransmit timing spec and tcp retry backoff. It's been a while since that presentation,

Re: snmp over tcp

2009-12-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Thorsten Frank wrote: if I am not wrong, I can start the snmpd like this: snmpd.exe -f -d -c c:\usr\bin\snmpd.conf tcp:4711 to tell the agent that it should listen on the tcp-port 4711. When I now try to query some information, doing something like this: snmpwalk.exe -v1 -c public

RE: snmp over tcp

2009-12-03 Thread Mike Ayers
From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 8:58 AM And is there some particular reason you'd want to do this? Seems like a bad idea if your network is unreliable and not needed if it is. Please don't beat that festering horse corpse... all