Re: cannot do snmpset on ipForwarding

hi all,

I assume this is the default behaviour. Right? then how can I change it?

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:59:39 -0500, David Wu
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to this list and also new user for net-snmp.
>
> I recently compiled the net-snmp-5.4 with ./configure (no other options)
> on a x86(suse 8.2) machine.
> I ran snmpd as "/tmp/net-snmp-5.4/agent/snmpd -M
> /tmp/net-snmp-5.4/snmpd/mibs -c /tmp/net-snmp-5.4/snmpd.conf -C"
>
> where /home/mnt/snmpd/mibs has all the files from the release.
>
> cat  /tmp/net-snmp-5.4/snmpd.conf:
>      rwuser  myname
>      rwcommunity public
>      group groupv3    usm        myname
>      view    all  included  .iso      80
>      access groupv3    ""       any       auth      exact  all      all
> all
>
> I can do snmpget :
>      /tmp/net-snmp-5.4/apps/snmpget -c public -v 1  localhost  
> ipForwarding.0
>      IP-MIB::ipForwarding.0 = INTEGER: notForwarding(2)
>
> Then ran the snmpset:
>      /tmp/net-snmp-5.4/apps/snmpset -c public -v 1  localhost
> ipForwarding.0 i 1
>      Error in packet.
>      Reason: (noSuchName) There is no such variable name in this MIB.
>      Failed object: IP-MIB::ipForwarding.0
>
> My question is: what is wrong with my setup/configuration which disallows
> me to modify the ipForwarding?
> ( but I can change hostname:
> /tmp/net-snmp-5.4/apps/snmpset -c public -v 1  localhost sysName.0 s  
> "TEST"
> SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: TEST)
>
> BTW: how I can force this sysName (hostname) updated on the host?(ie. the
> same as calling "hostname TEST")
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
>



-- 
David
[email protected]

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