RE: netsnmp over tcp

[Mike A. <mik...@tv...>]

> From: Dave Shield [mailto:D.T...@li...]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:52 AM

> On 24 February 2010 08:38, Sudeep Nayak <sud...@gm...> wrote:
> > RFC 3430 for SNMP over TCP mentions
> > "A fundamentally different approach is to make the
> notification receiver
> > responsible for establishing the TCP connection to the notification
> > originator.  This approach has the advantage that the notification
> > originator does not necessarily need a list of pre-configured
> notification
> > receiver transport addresses.  The current notification forwarding
> model
> > however relies on the snmpTargetTable to identify notification
> targets."
> >
> > I found that the net-snmp changelog suggests support for TCP, but is
> this
> > approach implemented in net-snmp?
> 
> I don't believe so, no.

	Nor should it.  Don't read that RFC - it's a gank.


Mike

(still sore after all these years...)