Re: Anyone using Net-SNMP on Solaris 10

Keith M Wesolowski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:48:34PM -0500, Jean-Sebastien Morisset wrote:

> If I start snmpdx by itself, I find the following ports open:
> 
> # lsof -i -n -P | grep snmp
> snmpdx    25372       root    4u  IPv4 0xffffffffa06c1a80        0t0 UDP *:16161 (Idle)
> snmpdx    25372       root    5u  IPv4 0xfffffe8456e3ee00        0t0 UDP *:45858 (Idle)
> snmpdx    25372       root    6u  IPv4 0xffffffffa06c1700        0t0 UDP *:45859 (Idle)
> 
> Once I start Net-SNMP, here are the open ports:
> 
> # lsof -i -n -P | grep snmp
> snmpdx    25372       root    4u  IPv4 0xffffffffa06c1a80        0t0 UDP *:16161 (Idle)
> snmpdx    25372       root    5u  IPv4 0xfffffe8456e3ee00        0t0 UDP *:45858 (Idle)
> snmpdx    25372       root    6u  IPv4 0xffffffffa06c1700        0t0 UDP *:45859 (Idle)
> snmpd     25660       root   10u  IPv4 0xffffffff9fb0f000        0t0 UDP *:46149 (Idle)
> snmpd     25660       root   11u  IPv4 0xffffffff9fb0f380        0t0 UDP *:46150 (Idle)
> snmpd     25660       root   13u  IPv4 0xffffffffa144fc00        0t0 TCP *:199 (LISTEN)
> snmpd     25660       root   15u  IPv4 0xfffffe840b19e540        0t0 UDP *:161 (Idle)
> 
> As I understand it, snmpdx was working as a sub-agent with the
> previously installed Net-SNMP.

That's correct, although to be totally honest I don't know exactly how
that works.  There's a program called seaport that runs at boot time
to find an unused port for the communication between snmpd and snmpdx.
As far as I can tell, that's not very resiliant against restarts and
the like.

-- 
Keith M Wesolowski		"Sir, we're surrounded!" 
Solaris Kernel Team		"Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" 


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