[mrtg] Re: SMTP on TCP port

[Chris Wilson]

Hi,

No, I'm not attempting to write an smtp agent, I'm just trying to get 
net-snmp and mrtg talking on different machines.

Chris

Peter P. Benac wrote:
> Chris,
> 
>       Are you attempting to write and SNMP Agent?  As I said before Redhat's
> own SNMP agents will bind to port 161 before you startup your software
> unless you disable them.  Furthermore you can't use the same functions for
> UDP ports that you use for TCP ports.   The latter assumes a "connection"
> between devices; whereas, UDP ports are connectionless.  
> 
>      You have to use the more primitive recv and send functions for UDP
> ports instead of the recvfrom and connect/send functions.
> 
>      I assure you even RedHat hasn't messed with the way TCP/IP works at
> this level.
> 
> Regards,
> Pete
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Chris Wilson [mailto:chris at sigmer.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:08
>>To: Peter P. Benac
>>Cc: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
>>Subject: Re: [mrtg] Re: SMTP on TCP port
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Sorry, I think my terminology is incorrect.
>>
>>The problem is that, when I start net-snmp, informing it to
>>use UDP port 
>>161, I can SNMP walk it locally (on the remote and local ip 
>>addresses), 
>>but when I try remotely it fails to work.
>>
>>Then I repeat the process, telling it to use TCP port 161 it
>>works fine, 
>>remotely and locally.
> 
> 
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