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 -- Stephen J Friedl | Security Consultant | UNIX Wizard | 714 694-0494 [email protected] | Orange County, CA | Microsoft MVP | unixwiz.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
