Re: SNMP "broadcast" discovery over IPv6

Dave,

> SNMP is basically a point-to-point protocol.

At least in IPv4 SNMP broadcasts were a quite common way to discover devices 
in the network and then manage them using point-to-point SNMP GETs and SETs. 
Even snmpd implements this functionality for IPv4 (listening on udp:161).

So can I assume snmpd doesn't implement the IPv6 side of this? (when 
listening to upd6:161).

Thanks,
Fabricio

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
To: "Fabricio Tofoli" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: SNMP "broadcast" discovery over IPv6


> On 23/01/07, Fabricio Tofoli <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The problem is that snmpd is not responding. Is snmpd
>> listening to multicasts to ff02::1?
>
> I doubt it.
> SNMP is basically a point-to-point protocol.
> It's not really designed for multicast operation.
> Unless you've explicitly hacked the agent to
> add such functionality, I wouldn't expect this
> to work.
>
> Dave
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share 
> your
> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash
> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
> _______________________________________________
> Net-snmp-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options:
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
>
> 



-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
Net-snmp-users mailing list
[email protected]
Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users