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From: stevewi@hpspdra.HP.COM (Steve Witten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Question on SNMP
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Date: 17 Apr 91 20:54:26 GMT
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/ hpspdra:comp.sys.mac.comm / domenikos@emass1.enet.dec.com (My name is George Domenikos.) / 12:54 pm  Apr 15, 1991 /



> Can somebody point me to a document dscribing the actual SNMP calls?
> I would like to talk to a router that supports SNMP.
> I have the overall standard document, but it is not clear to me as
> to what the actual calls are and what kind of information they provide.
>
> Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>George

What "calls" you make depend on whose code you are going to use.  SNMP
only defines the content/semantics of "protocol data units (PDUs)"
that accomplish the SNMP "task".  It defines no standard language
bindings for functions to build/send/receive/decompose those PDU's.

I assume you are using a Mac to talk to your router.  I can't help you
with that.  FTP Software (26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880,
617-246-0900) has (or will have shortly) a library for writing SNMP
applications on DOS (works using Ethernet or SLIP as well).

BTW, SNMP assumes UDP as its transport.

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