Re: [pysnmp-users] Sending a broadcast SNMP packet

[Adam V. N. B. <bra...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Ilya Etingof <il...@gl...> wrote:
> I've not heard of a possibility of SNMP broadcasting. If you do, please,
> let me see how it's to be done.

Well, it seems plausible, since SNMP runs over UDP, but I'm just a
newbie about SNMP and my opinions probably aren't acceptable :)

> Otherwise, what's your goal in the first place?

I'm trying to find printers in a network. Since
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2138 says CUPS uses a broadcast SNMP
packet to find printes, I'd like to try it too.

> -ilya
>
>> Is there a way to send broadcast SNMP packets with PySNMP? If so, how
>> can I do it?
>

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