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Re: SNMP listening ports: msg#00321

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Subject: Re: SNMP listening ports

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:11:40AM +0000, Dave Shield wrote:
>
> > I' ve noticed that the snmpd is listening to standard port 161
> > and to some other udp ports also.
> >
> > The number of additional ports is not the same at all the machines
> > that have snmpd installed and it goes from 2 to 4.
>
> How are these agents configured?
> In particular, what trap destinations are they set up with?
>
> Each such "trapsink" (or similar) will generate a UDP port.

And an open port does not mean that anybody is listening at it. It could
very well be a transmit-only port.

/Niels

--
Niels Baggesen - @home - Århus - Denmark - nba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers --- R W Hamming


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