Re: /etc/default/snmpd configuration

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07/12/06, Peter de Kraker <[email protected]> wrote:
> The only way I could get it to work was to edit the /etc/default/snmpd
> configuration line:
> Default settings included: SNMPDOPTS='-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -u snmp -I
> -smux -p /var/run/snmpd.pid 127.0.0.1'
> Changing the 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 solved my problem.

A better solution would be to drop '127.0.0.1' altogether.



> Could somebody with more knowledge of snmpd configuration stuff tell me
> if this hardcoded /etc/default/snmpd config file is indeed different
> from the standard configuration of snmpd?

Correct.
It's an defensible configuration, but it's not one that many distributions use.
It's certainly not something that we ship outselves.

>                                           Is this line indeed causing
> the binding to only 127.0.0.1 instead of the default behaviour to bind
> to all interfaces?

Correct.


Dave

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