[SNMP4J] Broadcast

maixner at ysoft.cz maixner at ysoft.cz
Tue Mar 14 14:54:17 CET 2006


Thank you for your answer.

> If you grab your system's IP address(s) and subnet mask(s) from its
> interface(s) you can use them to generate subnet specific broadcast
> addresses.
>
> This will only work for locally attached subnets.

Ok, this is enough for me. But how can I generate this broadcast address?

> To actually do anything useful with discovered agents you will also need
> to
> provide seed authentication information (e.g. community strings, etc.).

Community I have, authentication information (for SNMP v3) too, but I
don't know, how to implement broadcast SNMP get. I am able to get response
from one device, but I don't know how to do it with broadcast.

Thanks, David




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