Which snmp port?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Aug 6 13:03:15 PDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:47, stan wrote:
> There seem to be 2 (or 3) ports of UCD snmp in the ports tree, and the
> description files don't enlighten me as to the differences.
> 
> Could someone clue me in as to the reasons to use on vs the other?

I would use net/net-snmp (net-snmp 5.x) if you plan on using it for real
device/system management.  It has many new features and improvements
over 4.x.  I maintain and use net-snmp4 solely for a Perl application I
wrote that currently has some problems with the 5.x modules.

Joe

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