SNMP module vs Net::SNMP module
If you're fortunate to get stuck working on IPv6 stuff you're going to find that things are not always as they seem.
In my job where I'm tasked with testing scripts using SNMP to verify that they work with IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses I've found that the SNMP and Net::SNMP perl docs aren't necessarily correct on some things. Fortunately you can use Net::SNMP to create a session where it returns an error message if it doesn't create a session unlike SNMP which doesn't. SNMP appears to be more of a quick wrapper
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