I'm trying to write an SNMP manager using the net-snmp API. The manager will use UDP in IPv4 and IPv6, and will be sending get-requests (and getbulk, and getnext) to 10000 agents (arbitrary number, but you get the idea - a relatively large number). Is there any way to do this using just a single session?
I've compiled and experimented with the demo apps, they seem to use one session per agent. Creating 10000 separate sessions seems excessive (as I understand, this would consume 10000 sockets and 10000 distinct SRC PORTS from my host). Creating/using/closing 10000 sessions seems excessive as well. The reason I'm going here: my manager must interact with a firewall before sending any requests to any agents; a single firewall interaction identifying a single UDP source port would be much more desirable than 10000 firewall interactions identifying 10000 different UDP source ports. Thanks in advance for your comments.
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