Re: what is the meaning of transport

On 26/01/07, Clement Hsu <[email protected]> wrote:
> I see a option --with-transport. And I have some confused about this, what
> is transport used for , and how it work;

The "transport" is the low-level network protocol used to transport
the request from the original client to the SNMP agent, and back again.

The most common network transport for SNMP is UDP (strictly, UDP
over IPv4).  But the Net-SNMP suite supports various alternative
network transports - including TCP (over IPv4), both UDP & TCP over
IPv6,  "Unix Domain" (for connections between two processes running
on the same machine - see particularly AgentX), and "Callback" (for
making queries from within the agent itself).

They all work in basically the same way - once you've opened an
snmp_session connection, there's no practical difference between
any of them.   You send and receive requests in exactly the same
way every time.

Dave

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