Re: SNMP and IPX

Alvin Starr (alvin@eyepoint.com)
Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:41:12 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:

> Alvin Starr <alvin@eyepoint.com> said:
>
> Alvin> Does anybody know how to get at a HP hub that is on an IPX
> Alvin> network from a linux system running tkined/scotty and the IPX
> Alvin> patches/kernel hacks??
>
> Are your saying that you want to send SNMP messages over IPX instead
> of using UDP/IP as a transport? This would require to rewrite parts of
> the tnmSnmpNet module. You basically have to replace the UDP socket
> with an IPX socket. I have never done this but I would be interested
> in any patches. :-) I would be happy to provide code that extends the
> session configuration options so that you can choose between different
> transports. (It would perhaps be interesting to add support for ATM
> AAL5 sockets as well.)

I will try and work on the patches but I am not sure how long it will
take me to do them. I spend a lot of time running around trying to keep
all of the fires down to just a blazing infreno :)

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