[78514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: public accessible snmp devices?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Roudnev)
Mon Mar 7 03:06:07 2005
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>,
"Jim Popovitch" <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: <vickyr@socal.rr.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:04:46 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Cisco drops SNMP requests but not return '0', I saw it (dropped requests
because of _busy_) many times.
----- Original Message -----
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>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: public accessible snmp devices?
>
> 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
>
