Getting rid of (unwanted) SNMP broadcast

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I have noticed that my UM 20.04 generates an SNMP broadcast every time I connect my Android phone to USB for file transfer.

tcpdump:

10:32:21.104559 IP myhost.42632 > 255.255.255.255.snmp:  GetRequest(58)  system.sysDescr.0 system.sysObjectID.0 interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifPhysAddress.1

Thanks to "Ask Ubuntu" forum, solution was easy to find:

me@myhost/etc/sane.d$ grep autodiscovery ./*
grep: ./dll.d: Is a directory
./epson2.conf:net autodiscovery
./epsonds.conf:#net autodiscovery
./kodakaio.conf:### Network: Format is "net IP_ADDRESS [USB_ID]" or "net autodiscovery"
./kodakaio.conf:###          Currently autodiscovery seems to not work
./kodakaio.conf:net autodiscovery
./magicolor.conf:### Network: Format is "net IP_ADDRESS [USB_ID]" or "net autodiscovery"
./magicolor.conf:net autodiscovery

It took commenting out net autodiscovery lines to get rid of the SNMP broadcast.

Regards!
Gene

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