Re: Sending SNMP traps to custom ports from Linux

[Niels B. <nb...@us...>]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 07:50:57PM +0530, Vivek Nagaraj wrote:
> My server administrator says that the backward compatibility needs to
> be maintained with older server OS too. I am kind of stuck. I tried
> and tried and tried but could not receive traps at the ports other
> than 162.

With an up2date RHEL4, which is 4.9, it works. On 4.7, which currently
installs net-snmp-utils 5.1.2-18.el4, it also works.

That is the best verification I can do. I do not remember a problem
with specifying the trap port.

Are you sure it isn't a firewall issue for your RHEL system? Can you
run tcpdump when you send the trap?

Anyway, why are you running 4.7 which is several moons out of date?

/Niels

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