Re: Implementing link up and link down traps using Net-snmp API's

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization Sparta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Can anyone tell how my
> application will come to know link up/down nevents?

That's the biggest challenge.  Most of the time the agent has to do
internal polling to continuously check the state of the interface.  Some
OSes actually provide signals to an application for notifying when an
interface has changed state, but many don't.
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Cobham Analytic Solutions

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