Dave,

You were absolutely right - it was iptables, running on the CentOS box. I 
disabled it and snmpget worked. 

Of course, now I have to learn about how to set up iptables properly, but 
that's no harm.

Thanks for the help. It was really bugging me.

David Ingoldsby

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/12/2006 23:02:52:

> On 08/12/06, David Ingoldsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There are two machines acting as SNMP managers:
> >
> > 1: RedHat Enterprise Linux: net-snmp 5.1.2 installed.
> > I run snmpget to 10.0.1.48:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] snmpget -v 1 10.0.1.48 -c public system.sysDescr.0
> > SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: IBM OS/400 V5R3M0
> 
> >
> > 2: CentOS 4.4:  net-snmp 5.1.2 installed.
> > I run snmpget to 10.0.1.48:
> > snmpget -v 1 10.0.1.48 -c public system.sysDescr.0
> > Timeout: No Response from 10.0.1.48.
> 
> 
> > On rhe RHEL machine, to 10.0.1.48, there's an SNMP get-request, 
followed
> > immediately by a get-response.
> >
> > On the CentOS machine, there's an  SNMP get-request, followed 
immediately
> > by a get-response, followed immediately by an ICMP to the port the
> > get-response came from.
> 
> That definitely sounds like low-level network access control.
> (i.e. way below the level that Net-SNMP works at)
> 
> 
> 
> > Wireshark on both machines sees the responses relevant to that 
machine,
> > and neither machine is running a firewall.
> 
> Are you sure that the CentOS machine doesn't have 'iptables' installed?
> What do:
> 
>      service iptable status
>      chkconfig --list iptables
> 
> return on this box?
> 
> Dave

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