I tested from our management application without giving udp6 and port number
and it works fine. So, the requirement of giving udp6 is of "snmpget" and
not the agents.

- Srini
  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wes Hardaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 10:54 AM
> To: Srini Kode
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 
> [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: IPv6 testing
> 
> >>>>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:00:13 -0800, "Srini Kode" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> Srini> snmpget -v 2c -D All -c public 
> udp6:[fe80::205:30ff:fe00:2309]161 
> Srini> sysDescr.0
>  
> Srini> This means the network management application must 
> give udp6 and 
> Srini> the port number number 161 also when they query. Is 
> this the standard practice?
> Srini> Just like IPv4 why cannot we just have the ip address in the 
> Srini> request?
> 
> Our applications require the usage of specialized strings for 
> determining which transport to us.  Every management 
> application will likely do something different.
> 
> Actually, I think you can drop much of the above as the port 
> number and the udp6 identifier portions will be figured out 
> if you don't include them.  But this is from memory of how I 
> remember it being implemented.  I haven't looked at the code 
> or tested it to make sure what I'm saying is the truth ;-)
> 
> --
> Wes Hardaker
> Sparta
> 


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