Hi Steve,
Thanks for your reply. But the same thing can be achieved by filling
oids in var_bind list of GETNEXT PDU. I can provide all the
oids of a table in var_bind and get the entire data in one shot.
Please explain.
Thanks,
Ravi
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Steve Friedl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 07:30:54PM +0530, shardul kumar wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Could any one please let me know why do we need snmpbulk while
> > snmpwalk(using GETNEXT)
> > is already available for bulk data transfer. I mean to say if I am able
> to
> > retrieve all the rows of a
> > table using GETNEXT then what is so special in GETBULK ?
>
> It's a huge performance win to be able to return more than one OID at a
> time,
> especially when there's some distance between agent and client. Try timing
> an
> snmpbulkwalk of something across a VPN tunnel on the other side of the
> country,
> then do the same thing with snmpwalk.
>
> Steve
>
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> [email protected] | Orange County, CA | Microsoft MVP | unixwiz.net
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