bsnmpd vs net-snmp

[Steve Bertrand]

Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Brandon Weisz <lists at avioc.org> wrote:

>> I cant speak to the documentation, but this seems to limit it to listening
>> on a single address:
>>
>> Example..
>>
>> # open standard SNMP ports
>> begemotSnmpdPortStatus.192.168.2.254.161 = 1
> 
> Thanks, but I tried this already. It causes bsnmpd to listen on the
> given IP as well, but doesn't remove the *:* entry:
> 
> root at gw1 [/root]# sockstat -l4
> USER     COMMAND    PID   FD PROTO  LOCAL ADDRESS         FOREIGN ADDRESS
> root     bsnmpd     61251 4  udp4   *:*                   *:*
> root     bsnmpd     61251 5  udp4   127.0.0.1:161         *:*
> 
> The author suggested using "begemotSnmpdPortTable.0.0.0.0.161 = 1" and
> change the IP there, but this causes the following error:
> 
> Apr 30 08:59:59 gw1 snmpd[78798]: unknown variable
> Apr 30 08:59:59 gw1 snmpd[78798]:   in file /usr/local/etc/bsnmpd.conf line 20
> Apr 30 08:59:59 gw1 snmpd[78798]: error in config file

Here's how I limit to a single address:

host := 208.70.106.1

# open standard SNMP ports
begemotSnmpdPortStatus.[$(host)].161 = 1
begemotSnmpdPortStatus.127.0.0.1.161 = 1

# netstat -na | grep 161
udp4       0      0  208.70.106.1.161       *.*
udp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.161          *.*

Steve