Hello,

>When a management station receives a trap that has been forwarded by
>TrapEXPLODER will it report it a coming from the original agent or will it
>believe the trap to have originated at the TrapEXPLODER system?

  Good Question!  Here's the answer:
  We preserve the original agent address in the SNMP Trap PDU.

SNMP Trap PDU:

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  | enterprise | agent | generic   | specific  | time  | variable     |
  |   ID       | addr  | trap type | trap type | stamp | bindings . . |
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------

An SNMP Trap PDU gets carried as payload in a UDP PDU.

>
>We have tried to forward traps from NetView but the receiving management
>station always reports NetView as the origin which is not what we require.

  A management station should look at the agent address in the
  SNMP Trap PDU (not the UDP packet header) to determine what
  agent the trap came from.

>
>Thanks
>
>Ken Freeman   <gbwbsjhs AT ibmmail DOT com>
>Woolwich plc
>


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