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Re: Writable SNMP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Dec 6 17:42:02 2011

To: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:18:52 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:39:57 -0500
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:18:52 EST, Jeff Wheeler said:

> I've spent enough time writing code to deal with SNMP (our own stack,
> not using Net-SNMP or friends) to have a more in-depth understanding
> of SNMP's pitfalls than most people.  It is TERRIBLE and should be
> totally gutted and replaced with something more sane, less likely to
> have bugs, etc.

A number of years ago, I pointed out that the official rfc-index.txt listed
the publication date of RFC1442 as April 1, 1993 rather than April 1993.

Draw your own conclusions. ;)

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