Re: Query: SNMP Prococol

Dave Shield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20 October 2010 11:20, Queenie de Melo <[email protected]> wrote:
> We know that, the SNMP agent(Server) listens on port 161 for SNMP GET/SET
> requests from the SNMP Manager (Client). The SNMP Agent then sends back a
> response (GET-RESPONSE) to the SNMP Manager.  This will be received by the
> SNMP Manager on which Port?

The same port used as the source of the original request.
Much as for any other client/server arrangement.

So if the original request went:    a.b.c.d  port N    ->    w.x.y.z  port 161
then the response will go:        w.x.y.z  port 161  ->    a.b.c.d  port N


> And during the GET-RESPONSE sent from SNMP Agent to SNMP
> Manager--- Who is the Server and who is the Client?

The client is the manager - the agent is the server.
Think of this as a combined request/response *pair*,
not of the two packets as independent requests.


This is exactly the same model as (e.g.) a web browser and web server.

Dave

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