Re: snmptrapd and use of load balancers
Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
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>>>>> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:58:30 -0400, Marc Zampetti <[email protected]> said: MZ> I'm setting up a snmptrapd farm for our network, and plan to use a MZ> network load balancer in front of the snmptrapd processes to provide HA MZ> and load balancing. If you're willing, you should document your experiences after you done on the net-snmp wiki. It'd be useful information for others to read. MZ> The one question that came up from my network engineers is how MZ> snmptrapd determines the IP address of the agent sending the TRAP or MZ> INFORM message, and how it determines how to send the INFORM reply. >From the IP headers itself. MZ> This is important because the load balancer we are using doesn't do MZ> packet translation, and as such, the TRAPS will be coming to the MZ> snmptrapd from the load balancers, at least as far as the IP layer MZ> knows. Basically, we are not planning on using NAT in the load MZ> balancer. Err... So you have the load-balancers actually modifying the source address of the IP packet? Wouldn't it be simpler to just modify the destination address? -- Wes Hardaker Cobham Analytic Solutions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ 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