Re: Little help! (net-snmp 5.5 under Cygwin on WinXP) [SOLVED]

Ben Kamen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/22/2010 8:52 AM, Ben Kamen wrote:
> On 2/22/2010 8:45 AM, Dave Shield wrote:
>>
>> On 22 February 2010 14:32, Ben Kamen<[email protected]>   wrote:
>>>> Can you get your device to generate SNMPv2 traps
>>>> instead of SNMPv1 ones?
>>>
>>> It is. I included a screenshot from wireshark that looks like it
>>> made it through the list. Did it possibly not?
>>
>> Aha!
>> I've spotted the problem.
>>
>> The device is issuing traps in SNMPv1-format,
>> but they are being labelled as using SNMPv2c.
>> (Which has a completely different packet format
>> for notifications).
>>
>> So the trap receiver thinks it's getting an SNMPv2-style
>> trap, and so gets very confused when it's not in the
>> correct format.
>>
>> You need to take this up with the vendor of the
>> kit that's producing the traps.
>>
>> In the meantime, if you can configure the device
>> to generate SNMPv1 traps, then maybe things will
>> work better.

Success!

  Thanks Dave!

  -Ben

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