Re: snmpd sleeps when snmpgets are run

Kyle,

> Net-SNMP 5.2.2 on Solaris 8. Before I go digging further,
> is there any connection between snmpd on a given system and
> the running of snmpget commands on that same system to a
> second remote one, such that the running of the snmpget's
> would disallow connections to snmpd on the first? I know it
> sounds crazy, but that's the behavior we are seeing. Every
> 30 minutes we are running a series of 20 snmpgets to a system
> (for Nagios) whose snmpd is down and each snmpget times out.
> During the running of this series, snmpd will not accept
> connections. Even ones from the same host time out using
> snmpget, even to the loopback interface. A truss shows snmpd
> just sleeping and a snoop shows just incoming packets to 161,
> never responded to. Make any sense to anyone? Thanks.

Maybe,you should run another instance of snmpd on machine B on a different
port from 161.

Yilmaz.



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