Chris just wrote: > On the downside, there are completely different, filthy details, but at > least they're portably filthy. :-)
It should also be pointed out that some of the older versions of SNMP were, err... slightly unsafe in a security sense. Newer versions (are we up to 5 now?) seem to have plugged the holes, *but* you want to be sure you are rolling the most recent SNMP spec, with proper authentication active, and with the firewall blocking nosy outsiders from butting into it (better paranoid than sorry). That said, it is now safe (and it is also freakin' telco-like in its hugely huge hierarchy, as it was mentioned). Just don't roll out the old one, which might be especially the case if you are doing a personal project on... vintage hardware =) I could try to list the horrors of past versions of SNMP, but Chris seems much more of an expert in it so I will pass the honor and go to bed instead. ZZZZzzzzz.... -Federico _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish Muad'Dib of Caladan (Federico L. Lucifredi)- BU & Harvard University [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lucifredi.com _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
