Re: 127.0.0.1 = localhost?!

"Richard Horton" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> The other option would be if the agent was running as a
> non-privileged process, so couldn't open (privileged) port 161.
> But if you're starting things as root, then that's less likely.
>
> I'd check for the presence of another SNMP agent.

A useful tip - if you find you can't attach to a given port is to run
lsof -i -P and see what processes have which ports in use...

(Or run a netstat -a | more and see what netstat thinks is open).


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