[147275] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Writable SNMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Tue Dec 6 15:02:19 2011
In-Reply-To: <20111206173934.GK21378@blackrose.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 15:01:26 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Dorian Kim <dorian@blackrose.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dorian Kim <dorian@blackrose.org> wrote:
> 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.
this is exactly my 'testing' commment... and you thought bgp bugs were
painful :)
