System Management Guide: Communications and Networks

SNMP Daemon Implementation Restrictions

The current implementation of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent does not have:

• User interface for proxy agent support
• Nontrivial authentication support.

Not all values defined in RFC 1213 are supported, as illustrated in the following note:

Note: A set request for ipRouteType 2 (invalid) causes deletion of a route. A get request never returns this value for an existing route.

Always observe the following implementation restrictions:

• An interface must be enabled by a locally issued ifconfig command before it can be enabled or disabled by the ifAdminStatus variable. An Internet Protocol (IP) address cannot be associated with an interface except with a locally issued ifconfig command.
• The snmpd agent does not provide a way to alter the IP address associated with an interface adapter. This must be done with a locally issued ifconfig command.
• The maximum message size that can be sent is 9KB (9216 bytes). The maximum message that can be received is 40KB (40960 bytes).

If you set the value of the MIB variable ipForwarding to 1, indicating that the TCP/IP kernel is to forward packets, the snmpd agent performs some interface checks before it allows the set operation to succeed. If more than one interface is active, the MIB variable ipForwarding is set to 1 and the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) kernel configurable option ipforwarding is set to 1. Otherwise, the snmpd agent does not perform the set operation and an error badValue is returned.