Re: Traps sent by Windows machine not recognized

Jean-Paul Minet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex,

It finally worked.  After sending mail to the list yesterday (with excerpts of 
snmptrapd debug output), I realized the the problem was at the ip/udp layer... I 
found a firewall rule mispelled!

Thanks again for your support

Jean-Paul

Alex Burger wrote:
> Try it with authorization disabled.  In snmptrapd.conf:
> 
>    disableAuthorization yes
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
> Jean-Paul Minet wrote:
>> I am trying to use net-snmp 5.3.1 on a linux box to receive traps from various 
>> sources.  Everything seems fine for traps originating, for example, from a 
>> snmptrap command on another linux box, but when I generate a trap on a Windows 
>> XP machine (using the native Windows snmp services), I can see the trap reaching 
>> my linux net-snmp machine (e.g. through a tcpdump):
>>
>> [root@gaia ~]# tcpdump -i eth0 host x.y.z.w and port 162
>> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
>> listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
>> 16:05:02.998217 IP iguest.x.y.z.solid-mux > gaia.x.y.z.snmptrap:  C=xxxx 
>> Trap(690)  E:311.1.13.1.8.83.101.99.117.114.105.116.121 x.y.z.w 
>> enterpriseSpecific s=528 [|snmp]
>>
>> but snmptrapd doesn't seem to see it/interpret it correctly.  At least, I don't 
>> see anything in my syslog message file (while I do with traps generated from a 
>> linux-based snmptrap command, whether v1 or v2c).  My snmptrapd.conf file only 
>> contains:
>>
>> authCommunity log,execute,net xxxx default
>>
>> Any hint on what could be wrong or how to check further?
> 
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