[8591] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SNMP probers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Fri Apr 11 12:57:41 1997
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:37:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, mmiller@cbis.com
In-Reply-To: <199704111228.NAA09042@panic.inta.net>
That is funny, one of our Ascend GRF units ignores SNMP completely (even
to itself). (Not desired behavior).
-Deepak.
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> > 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 ;)
>
> Yup, thats exactly the right thing to do, my network drops all SNMP packets
> at all transit and access points, mmm Ascend GRF :-)
>
> Regards,
> Neil.
> --
> Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. D O M I N O
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