LuaSNMP fork

Description

The original repository hleuwer/luasnmp implements a module with Lua bindings to Net-SNMP.
This repository is a fork of with additional features.

The main purpose of this fork is to be able to use SNMPv3 queries in Nmap NSE scripts.

Additional features

• A new configure script.
  The original repository use a config file with hardcoded values to be used during installation.
  The configure script is probably easier to use, as it auto-detects certain paths, and may override settings in config automatically.
  (Using configure is still optional, if one prefers to edit config manually instead.)
• Support for authentication protocols MD5,SHA-224|256|384|512 and privacy protocols DES,AES-192|256, if the installed version of Net-SNMP supports the mentioned protocols.
• Nmap NSE support:
  • The installed library has been renamed from snmp to luasnmp to not clash with the existing Nmap NSE library snmp.
  • Minor modifications to make luasnmp work in strict mode with Nmap NSE scripts.
• Parsing the host:port argument (a.k.a. "peername") accepts custom SNMP port numbers, and only the host part is validated as an IP/hostname.
  (Without this fix, using a custom SNMP port caused the IP validation to fail.)
• The timeout argument may be a decimal value, to support low timeout values (fractions of a second).
• The secLevel argument is case-insensitive (accepts any of Authpriv, AUTHPRIV etc.), to be more aligned with Net-SNMP and other SNMP implementations.

Install

See USAGE.md for details.