Re: SNMP control of switches on NetBSD?

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 01:48:08AM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki (CE-Pro Bikes) 
wrote:
> 
> > Has any NetBSD user had any luck controlling 3Com and 
> > Cisco/Linksys switches via SNMP,
> 
> Very few MIBs are writable in the Cisco IOS Mibs on Catalysts; the most
> useful one is the TFTP remote destination address value as well as the
> companion boolean, which, when snmp-SET to 1, triggers the TFTP or SCP
> client on the system to execute a file transfer.

That is what I was afraid of.  I scanned the MIBs on the 3Com switch
at the office, and I did not find any writable VLAN MIBs.  I haven't
scanned the MIBs on my Cisco/Linksys switch at home, but it must be much
less capable than the Catalyst.

Dave

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