Re: [Isms] Ismssnmp: URI scheme transport extensions

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu>]

--On Monday, July 27, 2009 02:12:52 AM -0700 Wes Hardaker 
<wjhns1 at hardakers.net> wrote:

> > > > > > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:47:36 +0200, "David Harrington"
> > > > > > <ietfdbh at comcast.net> said:
>
> DH> Why do we need to specify the transport in the URI? We are already
> DH> specifying port 5161, which is snmp/ssh.
>
> You're presuming TCP there.  You're also presuming a standard port is
> being used and you can determine from that what is running on it, which
> isn't a safe assumption.

Right.  There are any number of reasons why I might want to run this on a 
non-standard port, or run something else -- even something SNMP related -- 
on port 5161.

-- Jeff