Re: Sending informs from a specific ip address
Glenn McAllister <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.user |
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| Organization | SOMA Networks, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Dave Shield wrote: > 2008/10/21 Glenn McAllister <[email protected]>: >> Heres the problem. The snmpd.conf file is being processed before >> snmp.conf. Since snmp.conf hasn't been read yet, the value for >> clientaddr is NULL when we are processing the trapsess directives, >> resulting in the socket binding to INADDR_ANY. > > What happens if you embed the 'clientaddr' directive within the > snmpd.conf file? > i.e. something like > > rwuser userblah > agentaddress localhost:161,192.168.222.5:161 > > [snmp] > clientaddr 192.168.222.5 > > [snmpd] > trapsess -v 3 -u userblah ..... > > > A quick test seems to indicate that this will process the clientaddr > directive first, as required. > > Dave And if I'd read 'man read_config' I would have seen that and saved myself several hours of convoluted debugging... And that works beautifully. Informs are coming off the box with the correct source address. Thanks Dave, I appreciate the help. -- Glenn McAllister <[email protected]> +1 416 348 1594 SOMA Networks, Inc. http://www.somanetworks.com/ +1 416 977 1414 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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