Re: SNMP GetBulk Max PDU size with Max repetitions

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20 May 2010 21:30, Malathi Panyam <[email protected]> wrote:
>     What is the MAX value Max repetitions for GetBulk requests?

In terms of the SNMP protocol - none.
In terms of the Net-SNMP client tools - none

>  I tried to increase beyond 100 and it resets to 100.

That's a limit imposed by the Net-SNMP agent,
to try and avoid excessive processing that may well result
in too large a response to be returned.


>    is there anyway that we can increase this limit?

    $ man snmpd.conf

      maxGetbulkRepeats NUM
              Sets the maximum number of responses allowed for a
single variable in a getbulk request.
              Set to 0 to enable the default and set it to -1 to
enable unlimited.   Because memory is
              allocated ahead of time, sitting this to unlimited is
not considered safe if your user
              population can not be trusted.
              A repeat number greater than this will be truncated to this value.

Dave

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