[147258] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Writable SNMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian Kim)
Tue Dec 6 12:41:08 2011
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:39:34 -0500
From: Dorian Kim <dorian@blackrose.org>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <1AB264E2-E1BC-41BF-BF9B-89BF642FFC4E@puck.nether.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 12:15:35PM -0500, Mauch, Jared wrote:
> > Also, who tests snmp WRITE in their code? at scale? for daily
> > operations tasks? ... (didn't the snmp incident in 2002 teach us
> > something?)
>
> There's no reason one can't program a device with SNMP, the main issue IMHO
There is one good reason. Every vendor seem to assign a junior intern to
maintanining SNMP code, so you are interfacing with your router via a very
suspect interface.
-dorian
