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On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 15:15 +0200, Marco Mussini wrote:
> Hi Magnus, thanks a lot for your answer; I understand.
> However in our application we do have the special need to propagate
> the manager address information to the subagents, and not for security
> reasons - actually, for functional reasons.
That do sound very odd, why should it matter what machine it is that
asks the question unless it is security?
> So I wonder if there is a way to register some custom handler code in
> the master agent, for example, so that it can do something with the
> source IP address found in the received PDU: for example it could
> append that information to the list of existing Varbindings before
> passing the PDU on to the subagents. This way the subagents will be
> able to access that information as needed.
That would probably be possible (it's software, everything is
possible...), but I think it would be a really bad idea to do this, not
least since it would mean that you would be lying to your subagent and
not speaking proper AgentX
> In your opinioni is this something that could be achieved
> using/abusing the existing hooks/registration mechanisms, without
> changing NetSNMP code?
You have to add things to the master agent but it could be done, with
that said I wish to repeat that it probably would be a really bad idea.
/MF
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