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SNMP_session.pm

Availability and IPv6 support

Name

IPv6 support

Supported operating systems

[http://www.switch.ch/misc/leinen/snmp/perl/ SNMP_session.pm]

included since version 0.98

Unix, Linux, [http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=SNMP_session.pm *BSD]

Description

An SNMP library written entirely in Perl. There are two layers of programming interface: SNMP_Session.pm/BER.pm provide a low-layer interface to encoding and decoding of SNMP requests and data structures. SNMP_util.pm adds basic MIB parsing support and convenient interfaces to some basic SNMP operations.

Comments

Required extensions to be operational within a native IPv6 environment In order to communicate with managed devices over IPv6, support for INET6 address family sockets is needed. The package initially used the IO::Socket::INET class. A usable version of a IO::Socket::INET6 module has been contributed to CPAN. Many of the SNMP agents currently deployed don't support IPv6 even when on devices that are otherwise IPv6-capable (and thus have AAAA records in the DNS). Therefore, IPv6 support must be explicitly requested by setting $SNMP_Session::ipv4_only to 0 (default is 1).

Tested and used in 6NET project.

Usage information

Categories

CategoryApps, CategoryAppstesting_and_monitoring

Source of information

http://www.6net.org