On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 18:10 -0500, Hayes, Paul - CS wrote:
> Dear Sirs,

> Wondering what the correct form is for specifying an IPv6 source
> (agent-address) within an snmptrap command line?
> 
> The trap will be issued to the target host IP address
> (2005:0000:0000:0000:0148:0036:0051:0001) when I let the agent specify
> the agent-address with "" - for example see further below.
> In this case the trap is well received at the destination; but
> unfortunately I need to specify an IPv6 address rather than the IPv4
> address it defaults to use.

A v1-trap contains an agent address. That field is defined as a IPv4
address so you can't give it a IPv6 address. No, we can't change this
since the protocol is broken here.

I suppose this is one of the reasons that SNMPv2 came along.

/MF


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Return on Information:
Google Enterprise Search pays you back
Get the facts.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev
_______________________________________________
Net-snmp-coders mailing list
Net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders

Reply via email to