Re: snmptrapd 101

Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Seger, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:

> I finally found my problem and I don't know if this is a bug, a feature or
> some sort of configuration error on my part.  I decided to try running
> tcpdump when doing the snmptrap command and sure enough, nothing!  For
> complete grins, to make sure tcpdump was working I went to a different
> system and did a ping.  Worked fine so while there I decided to try snmptrap
> and lo and behold, I received it!
>
> In other works remote traps are being received but local ones aren't.  I
> gotta believe snmptrapd can receive local traps especially since all the
> examples in the FAQ show sending to 'localhost'.
>
> So does anyone have any idea why I can't receive local traps?
>

Which interfaces did you make tcpdump listen to ? Have you tried tcpdump -i
any, which also captures traffic sent over the localhost interface ?

Bart.

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