[78501] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: public accessible snmp devices?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Mar 6 10:20:51 2005
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:18:55 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>, vickyr@socal.rr.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1110122122.14367.7.camel@blue>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
>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.
>
>
So you are saying that it's ok for a Cisco or Juniper router to return
zero for a counter when they feel "busy" ?
My RFC collection tells a different story.
Pete
