Re: SNMPGet for localhost destination

Suresh,

>   If one sends SNMPGet for a local machine i.e IP 127.0.0.1, is the
> net-snmp code SNMPGet code optimized for not sending the request onto the
> network and route the request from within the machine itself. The basic 
> idea
> behind asking this question is that Does a  SNMPGet sent to a localhost 
> have
> better performance than a SNMPGet sent to a remoteHost.
It is not NetSNMP that does the 'optimisation'. On most *xes the address 
127.0.0.1 is bound to a loop back device which does not send anything on any 
ethernet or other physical devices. So yes, sending snmp GET requests to 
localhost aka 127.0.0.1 does result in 'better performance'.

Pete Martin 



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