[78500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: public accessible snmp devices?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Sun Mar 6 10:17:58 2005
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>, vickyr@socal.rr.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <422B1D42.6080308@he.iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 10:15:22 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 17:09 +0200, Petri Helenius wrote:
> the polling interval was fairly short. (on order of seconds)
I think this could be relevant. a LOT of devices drop snmp requests
when they get busy or when too many incoming requests occur. Are you
sure that you were the only one polling that device? Perhaps someone
else put it into a "busy" state. Too often with SNMP devices and tools
a '0' can mean things other than zero.
-Jim P.
