> 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?
Hmm...does the PM have any other interfaces on it that the user may be
connecting too (remember any numbered ptp or frame links have
subinterfaces that are network accessible) with a different IP address? Do
an ifconfig and see what other interfaces they may be coming in on. I'm
not sure.
-jr
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