[78496] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: public accessible snmp devices?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Mar 6 06:24:31 2005
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 13:24:10 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>
Cc: vickyr@socal.rr.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <005801c5222c$144f3d90$6401a8c0@alexh>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Alexei Roudnev wrote:
>Hmm, good idea. I add my voice to this question.
>
>But, btw, SNMP implementations are extremely buggy. Last 2 examples from my
>experience (with snmpstat system):
>- I found Cisco which have packet countters (on interface) _decreased_
>instead of _increased_ (but octet counters are _increased_);
>
>
And lately, for reasons undetermined so far there has been instances of
both vendor C and J where counters suddenly go to zero either
temporarily (like 1,2,3,4,0,6,7,8,0,10,etc.) or reset altogether without
any reason.
Pete
