note rob_au The other thing that you should consider when seeking to improve timing on SNMP interactions is the manner of data that you are polling: <p><ul><li>Are you unnecessarily iterating through SNMP tables or unwanted OIDs?</li><li>Does the device that you are monitoring supply the requisite information in separate, discrete OIDs?</li><li>Does the device that you are polling support SNMPv2 and in turn, GET-BULK, which is far more efficient for large set retrieval? (See [http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=1187|RFC 1187] for details)</li></ul></p> These are questions that perhaps might be worth considering before making changes to your processes. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-65703"> <p>&nbsp;<p> <tt><font size="-1">perl -le "print unpack'N', pack'B32', '00000000000000000000001000000000'"</font></tt> </div></div> 702479 702479