On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 08:22 +0200, Magnus Fromreide wrote: 
> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 11:43 -0700, dan anderson wrote:
> > I'm looking at net-snmp-5.4.2/agent/snmp_agent.c and addrCache within.
> > As far as I can tell, while this cache is initialized and maintained
> > by the agent, it's never actually *accessed* beyond keeping it up to
> > date. Is this vestigial code that the agent has evolved past needing?
> > In 5.5 RC1's snmp_agent.c also never uses the cache for anything, and
> > since it's static it shouldn't be visible outside of that file.
> 
> It looks like you are right.
> 
> So, what are the thoughts of the list?
> Should we remove the address cache?
> Should we start using it?

I have now looked further and it seems that the function of the address
cache is to rate limit the number of

LOG_INFO: Received SNMP packet(s) from <address>

log messages that get generated if either one of the -a option, the -d
option or the -V option are enabled.
The logs are rate limited to one every fifth minute or when ten
different hosts have connected to the agent

Now, if this is a functionality that is worth having or not is the big
questions.

/MF


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