Re: snmpd listening on a random UDP port

Markus Gaugusch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Dave!

I'm also experiencing this "problem". Is there a way to configure the 
source port in order to avoid the changes?
(I'm using seccheck scripts from openSUSE, and they report changed 
listening ports, which leads to unnecessary mails every now and then).

thanks!
Markus

On May 3, Dave Shield <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3 May 2012 06:34, Stéphane Charette <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Any idea why snmpd would listen on a different UDP port every time it is
>> restarted?
>
> Have you got any trap destinations set up in the snmpd.conf file?
> I have a feeling that these will each open a socket for communicating
> with the remote trap receiver.   It's possible that this is what you are seeing.
>
> Dave
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