From: Nick Driver (routernut@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 17:44:58 GMT-3
Sam,
I played with this awhile back and if I remeber
correctly it depends on the implementation of SNMP on
"both" ends. Cisco equipment and most Unix
implementations seems to be a little more efficient
passing back a block of data when you did the walk or
a bulk get, but some other equipment (an older axis
print server box) seems to reply with 1 packet per
requested OID (aka snmpget reply). (If they reply fit
in 1 packet that is.) I was looking at a perl script
that did snmpwalks and it actually requested
individual snmpgets on the back end. So the answer is
yes and no :)
-Scott
--- Sam Munzani <sam@munzani.com> wrote:
> Group,
>
> Does anybody know(With proofs) if snmpwalk would be
> more efficient than
> multiple snmpget?
>
> One of my friend tells me that snmpwalk will produce
> same amount of traffic
> and packets as multiple snmpgets. As you know, with
> snmpget, each snmp request
> is an UDP packet and reply is also an UDP packet. I
> am curious when you do
> snmpwalk if all reply comes in one packet or each
> line of reply is seperate
> packet?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam Munzani
> CCIE # 6479
>
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