I want to build an application using snmp for searching my LAN and exploring the devices which have shared some resources. I need some assistance to start with it, I have trying to do the same using net-snmp, but still no success.
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What programming language are you using? What operating system? What have you tried so far? – Cody Gray - on strike Apr 16 '11 at 07:11
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I am working on ubuntu 10.10, programming language is C. till now I have tried Net-snmp command line applications to query some IP addresses on LAN, but always timeout. – Ankur Apr 16 '11 at 07:20
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What is your question that is related to programming? – Mike Pennington Apr 16 '11 at 08:03
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SNMP is on UDP, so you can simply do a broadcast.
It is quite normal that net-snmp times out in such cases, as no SNMP agent would like to respond to you or no SNMP agent is there in the same LAN.
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