Re: (PM) SNMP

John Gonzalez/netMDC admin (ekool@ns1.netmdc.com)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:04:19 -0600 (MDT)

On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, John Nowack wrote:

|| Hi,
|| I had noticed some messages on the Portmasster3 console before like this:
|| SNMP: Bad Community - public
|| SNMP: Bad Community - public
|| It had me mildly interested in who or what was trying to read SNMP info
|| from my Portmasters. So I decided to find out. I made a little
|| filter to ptrace it:
|| 1 permit 0.0.0.0/0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 udp dst eq 161
||
|| Now I can see my SNMP monitoring stuff querying the PM every so often,
|| but now and again I get the "bad community" message come up with no
|| ptrace info within 3 minutes either side of it.
||
|| What am I missing?

just a quick question. Does changing SNMP require a reboot? such as
changing community/access privileges?

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