Net-SNMP 5.3 available
Robert Story <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:18:00 -0500
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Net-SNMP 5.3 has been made available on our download site (
http://www.Net-SNMP.org/download/ ).
Official patches for this or any of the Net-SNMP releases will be
available (as always) at http://www.net-snmp.org/official_patches/.
We hope you enjoy this new release,
The NET-SNMP Development Team
Contents of this announcement
-----------------------------
- What has Changed recently?
- Where can I get it?
- Are there binaries available?
- What operating systems does it run on?
- Which versions of the SNMP protocol are supported in this package?
- I've found a bug or have a suggestion, how do I tell you about it?
- What's the difference between UCD-SNMP and Net-SNMP?
What has Changed recently?
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Here's the portion of the NEWS file for 5.3:
*5.3*
*** Important Notes ***
Several very significant changes have been made in Net-SNMP for this
release that warrant special attention.
- shared library version number no longer matches the release number. We
now follow the versioning scheme recommended by libtool. For the 5.3
release this means that the libraries now have a SONAME ending with
".so.10", e.g. libnetsnmp.so.10.
- snmpd has not been truncating log files at startup, as documented in
the man pages, for a while now. This default behaviour has been resto=
red.
Please use the '-A' flag if you want to continue appending to your log
files at startup.
- snmptrapd will no longer accept all traps by default. It must be
configured with authorized SNMPv1/v2c community strings and/or SNMPv3
users. Non-authorized traps/informs will be dropped.
- Due to a copyright statement that didn't allow modifications,
snmpnetstat has been completely rewritten. The new version now
accepts the same command-line options as the other tools, which
has introduced a number of incompatible changes. However, it
does now finally support SNMPv3.
New:
Building:
- new option to disable set support in the agent (--disable-set-suppo=
rt)
snmpd:
- implement notification logging
- implement notification filtering
- AgentX, host resources and disman/event mibs added to default module
list
- updated and new disman mib implementations
snmptrapd:
- allow a non-default AgentX socket
- a brand new authorization scheme that is based on the VACM
authorization scheme from snmpd.
- Note: now drops unauthenticated notifications by default
- registers the snmpEngine MIB group under the "snmptrapd" context
snmplib:
- new helper for ascii file based scalar integers (think Linux /proc/)
- new utilities for dealing with files
- new utilities for parsing text files
- granular config/persistent file disablement (noPersistentLoad and
noPersistentSave snmp.conf tokens)
mib2c:
- mib2c.mfd.conf now generates code for persistence row storage
- many enhancements and bug fixes
snmpusm:
- allows to use old and/or new localized key instead of passphrase wi=
th
option -Ck
- new option -CE to specify usmUserEngineID (necessary to manage
snmptrapd's usmUserTable)
Ports:
Linux:
- new experimental tables
- tcpConnectionTable, tcpListenerTable
- ipAddressPrefixTable
- udpEndpointTable
- ipv4InterfaceTable, ipv6InterfaceTable
- inetCidrRouteTable supports dynamic ipv4 route creation/deletion
- added ipv6IpForwarding.0 and ipv6IpDefaultHopLimit.0 (read-write)
Win32:
- Cygwin compiler fixes
- MSVC: agent (snmpd) support for pass and pass_persist
- MinGW: agent (snmpd) support for pass
- Fix for 'select: No such file or directory' in snmpdelta
Fixes:
- Persistent files in directory defined by snmp.conf persistentDir were
not being loaded at startup
- Perl getnext didn't honor explicit reference to MIB file
- AgentX sub-agent connection delayed til after config files read
- Build fixes for --disable-agent, --disable-snmpv1 and --disable-snmpv2c
- Lots of bug fixes
Where can I get it?
------------------
Download:
- http://www.net-snmp.org/download/
- ftp://ftp.net-snmp.org/pub/sourceforge/net-snmp/
Web page:
- http://www.net-snmp.org/
Sourceforge Project page:
- http://www.net-snmp.org/project/
Mirrors (note that sourceforge download servers are mirrored themselves):
- US: ftp://ftp.freesnmp.com/mirrors/net-snmp/
- Bulgaria: http://rtfm.uni-svishtov.bg/net-snmp/ (appears to be =
out
of date)
- Germany: ftp://ftp.mpg.goe.ni.schule.de/pub/internet/net-snmp/
(unknown host)
- Greece: ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/net/snmp/net-snmp/
Are there binaries available?
----------------------------
- Binaries do appear on our download site, but often are published a
bit later than the normal source code. Most of the binaries that
are available have been linked with the OpenSSL package so you'll
need a copy of it installed in order to use them. If you don't
have OpenSSL installed and don't want it installed, please get the
net-snmp source release instead and built it yourself (but you'll
loose support for SNMPv3 with SHA1 authentication and both DES and
AES encryption).
What operating systems does it run on?
-------------------------------------
Both the applications and the agent have been reported as running
(at least in part) on the following operating systems:
* HP-UX (10.20 to 9.01 and 11.11 to 11.0 -- see README.hpux11)
* Ultrix (4.5 to 4.2)
* Solaris/SPARC (11 to 2.3), Solaris/Intel (10, 9) -- see=20
README.solaris
* SunOS (4.1.4 to 4.1.2)
* OSF (4.0, 3.2 and Tru64 Unix 5.1B -- see README.tru64)
* NetBSD (2.0 to 1.0)
* FreeBSD (5.3 to 2.2)
* BSDi (4.0.1 to 2.1)
* Linux (kernels 2.6 to 1.3)
* AIX (5.2, 5.1, 4.1.5, 3.2.5) -- see README.aix
* OpenBSD (3.7, 2.8, 2.6)
* IRIX (6.5 to 5.1)
* OS X (10.4 to 10.1) -- see README.osX
* Dynix/PTX 4.4
* QNX 6.2.1A
* Windows (see the FAQ for details)
We have also been informed about a port to the Stratus VOS.
See http://ftp.stratus.com/vos/network/network.html for details.
See our FAQ at http://www.Net-SNMP.org/FAQ.html for more details on
portability of the Net-SNMP package.
Which versions of the SNMP protocol are supported in this package?
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SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3 (including user-based and kerberos-based
support)=20
I've found a bug or have a suggestion, how do I tell you about it?
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Please submit the bug to our bug-tracking system at:
http://www.net-snmp.org/bugs/
Please submit patches (for features or bugs) to our patch-tracking
system. (You don't need to submit a bug report as well, just a patch)
http://www.net-snmp.org/patches/
What's the difference between UCD-SNMP and Net-SNMP?
---------------------------------------------------
Not a great deal, really.
Although the project originally started at UC Davis (hence the name),
and it has always been based there, most of the contributors have had
little or no connection with this institution.
The move to SourceForge was intended to provide a more flexible
environment for the project, and to distribute the administrative
workload more evenly. The change of name simply reflects this move,
which was the last remaining link with UC Davis.
The 4.2.x line is the last release line that uses the ucd-snmp name,
and all releases under this banner will be bug-fixes only. Release
5.0 is the first version using the net-snmp name, and all new features
and significant development will be released under this name.
(Though the dividing line between a bug-fix and a new feature is
something of a vague one, so some changes in the 4.2.x line may be
relatively non-trivial!)
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