Re: How to send an SNMP broadcast?

Reinhold Kainhofer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization FAM, Vienna University of Technology
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Mittwoch, 15. September 2010, 21:06:16 schrieben Sie:
> > From: Reinhold Kainhofer [mailto:[email protected]]
> > 
> > get a permission denied, even as root:
> > 
> > root@einstein:~# snmpget -v 2c -c public 255.255.255.255
> 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.6.1
> > snmpget: Failure in sendto (Permission denied)
> 
>   This probably has nothing at all to do with net-snmp, but has
> everything to do with the socket library in the system you're trying to
> use to broadcast UDP packets.
[...]
>   An alternative you might try is to derive your individual IP network
> broadcast address and see if that works.

Thanks for the hint, but that doesn't work either (neither as user nor as 
root). I still get the same 
   "snmpget: Failure in sendto (Permission denied)"
error message...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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