13 Oct
2005
13 Oct
'05
9:29 p.m.
Sure you can. Just telnet to the SNMP server and send
it the commands to get
the messages. When I teach networking we actually have an exercise where we
do exactly that. It's a little tricky, though, because a telnet client does
not echo what you type. It depends on the telnet server echoing the data
back and it displays what it gets back. Unfortunately, SNMP servers don't do
that, so when you type the commands you can't see what you are typing. It
can be a little confusing. But doable, yes.
Eh? You could turn local echo on in the client, but tbh, I have not seen this
behaviour with the vanilla Unix client connecting to SNMP or SMTP ports.
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