On 9/15/10, Abraham Varricatt <abraham.varricatt+s...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 9/15/10, Abraham Varricatt >> <abraham.varricatt+s...@googlemail.com<abraham.varricatt%2bs...@googlemail.com>> >> wrote: >> > I've done some more investigation/study into this and well, could >> someone >> > please confirm if I've got my facts right below? >> >> I'll try :) >> >> > Thank you VERY much for your response Lee !! You have no idea how much of a > headache all this has been giving me. Good Lord, I had no idea how much > complexity existed between the different networking components while > implementing SNMP !
I haven't really thought about that part for a long time, but yeah.. it is a bit overwhelming at first. > A confession: The only book in my possession is "SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, and > RMON 1 and 2 (3rd Edition) by William Stallings". I have some background in > C & Linux, but nil / zilch with networking. Can you please suggest any good > networking books I could get to learn up these concepts? I'm sure there's books out there but I don't know of any. Wikipedia seems fairly good if you know what you're looking for. Cisco is pretty good - I'd suggest starting here for the basics http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/internetworking/technology/handbook/ito_doc.html > To be honest, this part of your explanation is still making my head spin - > "The mac address of the layer-3 router ip address may or may not have > anything to do with a layer-2 port mac address." Remember the context is a layer-3 switch; the physical ports are L2 switch ports & the L3 router "ports" are virtual interfaces. It seems reasonable that a router interface, physical or not, has it's own mac address... > At least, from what I > remember in college, that information *should* be the same up/down the > stack. <grin> have a look at balance-alb mode: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bonding#Bonding_Driver_Options > In hindsight, it looks like I bit off a 'little' more than I could chew, but > I want to keep going all the same. It really isn't all that hard :) & it was *much* easier for me to understand after looking at the snmpwalk output and figuring out how it all ties together. Good luck! Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list Net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
