Re: synchronous versus asynchronous

Hi,
thanks for your reply. By:
--
btw, you would have to explain what you mean by "bare bones snmp
client whose
only hook is the systems headers/libraries"

-G
--
I actually mean low-level api's. I want to code my own snmp client by
using the same techniques (i assume) net-snmp uses.

Gr,
Alef

On Nov 14, 2006, at 7:44 PM, G. S. Marzot wrote:

> Alef Veld wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> If i wanted to discover a large amount of hosts, which method would
>> be better. How does asynchronous work? Does it just send a bunch of
>> udp packets in a threaded fashion?
>>
>> It's just that i find the net-snmp library pretty difficult to
>> understand, and i wonder if there are some bare bones snmp client
>> whose only hook is the systems headers/libraries.
>>
>
>
> Async calls allow non-blocking sending of PDUs (see snmp_async_send
> ()) and
> provides functions to use within a select() based event loop (see
> snmp_select_info()).
>
> I am not aware of a higher level API ... although snmplib api is
> fairly high
> level for general snmp client functionality. no matter what you're
> going to have
> to do the basic steps
>
> 1) init the library
> 2)setup a session
> 3)construct a pdu
> 4)send it
> 5)process the result
>
> If you are looking for a much higher level API, see the perl SNMP
> module
> included in the release.
>
> use SNMP;
> $sess = new SNMP::Session(DestHost => localhost, Community => public);
> $val = $sess->get('sysDescr.0');
>
> btw, you would have to explain what you mean by "bare bones snmp
> client whose
> only hook is the systems headers/libraries"
>
> -G
>


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?p...rge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
Net-snmp-coders mailing list
Net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/...et-snmp-coders