SNMP probers

Deepak Jain deepak at jain.com
Fri Apr 11 16:37:27 UTC 1997


That is funny, one of our Ascend GRF units ignores SNMP completely (even 
to itself).  (Not desired behavior).

-Deepak.

On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Neil J. McRae wrote:

> >  If the probes are using a substantial amount of CPU inside the 
> > network, it may be cheaper (CPU-wise) to deny SNMP inbound on border 
> > routers...Bye Bye problem, Hello access-list log to automate email 
> > from ;)
> 
> Yup, thats exactly the right thing to do, my network drops all SNMP packets
> at all transit and access points, mmm Ascend GRF :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Neil.
> -- 
> Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking.                            D O M I N O
> neil at DOMINO.ORG       NetBSD/sparc - 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor)
>  Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">Computer!</A>
> 





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