Re: [Netdisco] Graph Mapping Question.

[Jethro R B. <jet...@st...>]

On Fri, 27 May 2011, Vidar Haugsv?r wrote:

> Wouldn't it have been sexy to actually have that dummy ip answer fake 
> "lldp/cdp" mib data so that netdisco (and other cdp/lldp topology 
> discovery software) would belive it actually where a router with all 
> these neighbours?
> 
> What kind of software would be suitable and scalabe to fake answers for 
> cdp/lldp snmp mib request on a linux server, given that somebody already 
> has given the server that data to answer?

There's a clever idea.  I guess any SNMP daemon that you can arbitrarily 
program OIDs and values into would work.

(BSD) bsnmpd seemingly lets you directly add OID/values to its config, and 
can include files.  So I guess you could programmatically write something 
to spit out some bsnmpd config to give you the right answers.

  http://www.ipnom.com/FreeBSD-Man-Pages/bsnmpd.1.html

Although if you're only doing it for netdisco, maybe you are as well just 
writing a topology file!

J.

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