SNMPv1 snmpwalk vs snmpbulkwalk
nimms-n...@megsinet.net
a snmpbulkwalk. If one is trying to get a series of mib index values, which
is better to use?
Olivier Miakinen
Neither snmpwalk nor snmpbulkwalk are snmp protocol requests: only
successive getnext requests are able to walk thru a mib tree.
I already knew "snmpwalk" commands, sometimes called "snmpmany",
which perform these successive getnext requests, but I never
heard of "snmpbulkwalk". Can you explain what it is ?
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nimms-n...@megsinet.net
walk the mib table for OID's.
In article <362F3F82...@bull.net>, Olivier Miakinen
Niels Baggesen
> In snmp SNMPv1 I know there are subtle differences between a snmpwalk and
> a snmpbulkwalk. If one is trying to get a series of mib index values, which
> is better to use?
snmpbulkwalk (as the name implies) usually uses v2(c) GETBULK requests,
and as such will not be applicable to SNMP v1.
/Niels
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nimms-noisespam@megsinet> snmpbulkwalk, from what I understand
nimms-noisespam@megsinet> executes snmpgetnext requests in order to
nimms-noisespam@megsinet> walk the mib table for OID's.
No, snmpbulkwalk uses a "getbulk" command which tells the agent to
return more than one variable for a single request. The biggest
user-level difference between snmpwalk and snmpbulkwalk is that
snmpbulkwalk uses less packets (by cramming more information into one
packet).
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