[8586] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SNMP probers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Levesley)
Fri Apr 11 07:06:49 1997
To: mmiller@cbis.com (Mat Miller)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-to: nanog@merit.edu
From: Lyndon Levesley <lol@xara.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Apr 1997 05:47:48 EDT."
<199704110947.FAA14558@asgard.CBIS.COM>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:57:21 +0100
Mat Miller wrote :
|->
|-> How does one prevent the probes from chewing-up the router's CPU time?
|-> - or - preventing the probes from getting that far?
|->
If the probes are using a substantial amount of CPU inside the
network, it may be cheaper (CPU-wise) to deny SNMP inbound on border
routers...Bye Bye problem, Hello access-list log to automate email
from ;)
|-> Oh well ..... I love it! .. ACK!!
|->
|-> |}
|->
Cheers,
Lyndon Levesley
Xara Networks
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