Re: Flow of Net-SNMP execution

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 08:08, kanda.samy@wipro.com wrote:

> I am going to develope one SNMP agent using Net-SNMP that
> 1) accept get request form manager
> 2) process the PDU
> 3) without returning the value to the manager, my agent should
> pass all the PDU information (OID , Manager address ) to
> some other module.
> 4) Then I have to get the response from that module
> 5) I have to form the return PDU and send to that particular
> manager.

That's pretty much what our agent does currently.
Did you have a particular mechanism in mind for step 3) ?

> 3) Can i redirect execution to some other module from
> the mib2c created code.

mib2c is really aimed at implementing MIB modules for the
Net-SNMP agent. If you're going to be writing your own agent,
it's probably not going to be of much use to you.

> To do this i need to know the complete execution flow of the Net-SNMP
> like
> 1) How it is receiving the PDU
> 2) How i can get the OID from the received PDU.

> Please give me this information or let me know where i can
> get the flow of execution of net-snmp.

See the code under the 'agent' directory.

Dave



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