Hi,

ICMP is not UDP. Which peer should send what message and which peer 
closes the socket.
I am confused...

Best regards,
Frank

Am 16.02.2013 00:52, schrieb vitz me:
>   Hello,
> Thanks for the reply. I probably used wrong wording here (as I have seen 
> something like UdpPortUnreachable exception in Java).. But still there should 
> be an ICMP port unreachable message (type 3, code 3) in case if UDP port is 
> closed (and not filtered; RFC 792 if I'm not mistaken)...which in turn should 
> make it possible to process the message and not wait for the timeouts.. 
> Please, correct me if I'm wrong...
> Thanks..
>
>
> Пятница, 15 февраля 2013, 23:47 +01:00 от Frank Fock <[email protected]>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that you mix up connection oriented communication (TCP) with
>> connection less (UDP).
>> With UDP you will never know if a target port is reachable or if the
>> application listening on the
>> target port is not responding. In both cases you simply wait forever for
>> a response (=timeout).
>>
>> Thus, there is no need to change SNMP4J.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> Am 15.02.2013 16:30, schrieb vitz me:
>>> I'm a beginner with Java and SNMP and trying to perform simple get 
>>> requests. I faced an issue when the connection timeouts seem to still have 
>>> an effect, even though the port specified for SNMP connection is closed on 
>>> the target host.
>>> Is it possible to somehow process the UdpPortUnreachable (exception) within 
>>> snmp4j? So that if the port is closed the timeout setting would not have 
>>> any effect. Or what could be a way for getting around this problem?
>>> The only way I could think of was trying to check the port using Java 
>>> sockets before even trying to send SNMP requests..
>>> Thanks.
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