[sane-devel] Warnings from SNMP (was Epson Perfection)

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Charles,

Charles Lindsey writes:

> On 19/10/2020 10:32, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>
>> If commenting out the kodakaio and magicolor backends in your dll.conf
>> does not solve this for you, you have external backends installed that
>> are responsible for the "deluge".  If the plustek backend is all you
>> need, simply comment out every other backend.
>
> I had already commented out 'net' (which I presume is the only one
> that should legitimately invoke snmp); now I have also commented out
> 'kodakaio' and 'magicolor', and the problem has vanished, though I
> still don't understand why.

The net backend has no business using SNMP, not until saned starts using
it at least.

I guess you missed the fact the net backend only works with saned
servers.  It does not in any way support scanners that are directly
attached to the network (as in have their own IP address and you can
telnet to).  It only works with the scanners that are locally attached
(via USB, SCSI, etc.) to a machine that run saned.

Hope this helps,
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