Re: snmptable failed

Thank you

2009/7/22 Dave Shield <[email protected]>

> 2009/7/22 François Dumont <[email protected]>:
> > I saw the parameter -CB is for not use
> >    GETBULK request. What does it means really ?
>
> The normal way of traversing a table (as used by "snmpwalk")
> is to send a series of GETNEXT requests.
>
> snmptable will attempt to use the GETBULK request instead,
> to cut down on the number of queries that need to be sent.
>
> But if you've got a broken agent (or broken MIB implementation),
> that doesn't understand the GETBULK request, then this will fail.
>
> So the -CB flag turns off this optimisation, and sends a series of
> GETNEXT requests instead - just as "snmpwalk" does.
>
> See any book on SNMP for more information about the basic
> protocol operations.
>
> Dave
>

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