Re: commit e56699f5e2ef ("Add the ability to set the source address with "-s" for trapsess")

Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/27/19 6:45 AM, Bill Fenner wrote:
> diff --cc man/snmpd.conf.5.def
> index eaa904f4b0,eaa904f4b0..43ca58f3ce
> --- a/man/snmpd.conf.5.def
> +++ b/man/snmpd.conf.5.def
> @@@ -851,9 -851,9 +851,9 @@@ can configure \fIsnmpd\fR to take a mor
>    defines the default community string to be used when sending traps.
>    Note that this directive must be used prior to any community-based
>    trap destination directives that need to use it.
> --.IP "trapsink [-profile p] [-name n] [-tag t] HOST [COMMUNITY [PORT]]"
> --.IP "trap2sink [-profile p] [-name n] [-tag t] HOST [COMMUNITY [PORT]]"
> --.IP "informsink [-profile p] [-name n] [-tag t] HOST [COMMUNITY [PORT]]"
> ++.IP "trapsink [-profile p] [-name n] [-tag t] [-s src] HOST [COMMUNITY [PORT]]"
> ++.IP "trap2sink [-profile p] [-name n] [-tag t] [-s src] HOST [COMMUNITY [PORT]]"
> ++.IP "informsink [-profile p] [-name n] [-tag t] [-s src] HOST [COMMUNITY [PORT]]"
>    define the address of a notification receiver that should be sent
>    SNMPv1 TRAPs, SNMPv2c TRAP2s, or SNMPv2 INFORM notifications respectively.
>    See the section
> @@@ -880,6 -880,6 +880,16 @@@ be used for SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB tabl
>    which notification filter profile entry will be used for filtering
>    outgoing notifications. (See \fInotificationFilter\fR)
>    .IP
> ++The optional src parameter specifies the source address that will
> ++be used when sending the trap packet to this sink.
> ++It is specified as a <transport-address>, using the same
> ++<transport-specifier> as the destination HOST.
> ++See the section
> ++.B LISTENING ADDRESSES
> ++in the
> ++.I snmpd(8)
> ++manual page for more information about the format.
> ++.IP
>    If several sink directives are specified, multiple
>    copies of each notification (in the appropriate formats)
>    will be generated.
> @@@ -888,7 -888,7 +898,7 @@@
>    It is \fBnot\fR normally appropriate to list two (or all three)
>    sink directives with the same destination.
>    .RE
> --.IP "trapsess [-profile p] [-name n] [-tag t] [SNMPCMD_ARGS] HOST"
> ++.IP "trapsess [-profile p] [-name n] [-tag t] [-s src] [SNMPCMD_ARGS] HOST"
>    provides a more generic mechanism for defining notification destinations.
>    .I "SNMPCMD_ARGS"
>    should be the command-line options required for an equivalent

This looks good to me.

Thanks,

Bart.
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