[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#381451: snmpconf tells you not the truth about interface binding

[Hilmar Preusse]

Package: snmp
Version: 5.2.2-5
Severity: normal

Hi,

I recently configured my snmpd using snmpconf. The script tells me
the following:

Configuring: agentaddress
Description:
  The IP address and port number that the agent will listen on.
  By default the agent listens to any and all traffic from any
  interface on the default SNMP port (161).  This allows you to
  specify which address, interface, transport type and port(s) that
  you want the agent to listen on.  Multiple definitions of this
  token are concatenated together (using ':'s).  arguments:
  [transport:]port[@interface/address],...

, when selecting to create snmpd.conf and then "6: Agent Operating
Mode" -> "4: The IP address and port number that the agent will
listen on.".

I wanted him to listen at all interfaces, hence I did not change the
value and the line starting with "agentaddress" was omitted in the
snmpd.conf. After restarting, the agent was listening only at the
loopback interface and I had explicitely to configure that the agent
should listen on the Ethernet Interface too (agentaddress IP).

I'm not sure if this is function as designed. For now I blame the
script to tell me not the truth when creating the configuration.

Regards,
  Hilmar
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