Dave, Thanks a ton for pointing this out - the iptables entry were "Reject"-ing all udp packets, regards, Arijit
-----Original Message----- From: Dave Shield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 6:05 PM To: Mukherjee, Arijit (Arijit) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Enabling net-snmp for managers on other machines > I can run all commands from my local machine, but from remote machine, > the port 161 is not discoverable. I know, this is more of linux (xinetd) > mgmt. question - was wondering, if anyone knew, what I need to anable to > allow others to be able to access this port? >From the FAQ: Requests always seem to timeout, and don't give me anything back. Why? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are a number of possible causes of this. The most likely are the agent access control settings (who is allowed access by the agent itself), or firewall/packet filtering settings ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A fuller list of possible causes (with indications of how to check for each) is as follows: - are the requests arriving, or being blocked (e.g. by a firewall)? (Restart the agent using 'snmpd -f -Le -d' and see if it shows the incoming packet dumps) My guess is that you're most likely running 'iptables' (or similar) and that this is blocking external access to port 161. If not, then try working through the full checklist from that FAQ entry. > I tried introducing a new service called snmp without specifying a port > (as /etc/services) states that snmp should run on port 161 - but that did > not help after starting xinetd!!!! :( Please note that 'snmpd' is run as a standalone daemon, and is *not* typically under the control of xinetd. Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users
