On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:08:59PM -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote: > > D'oh! I didn't read the message the whole way. > > Alex is completely correct - MRTG will not open > any ports on a machine. Other programs might, unless > you ran a scan while MRTG was running a coillection. > Then it needs to open up the port to talk snmp to the > devices it is getting information from. Even then, MRTG will open a high port on the machine it runs from, (NOT 161) and will communicate with the 161 port of the target.
> Paul > > >>> Alex van den Bogaerdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/09/03 10:39 AM >>> > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:11:31PM +0100, Mam Ruoc wrote: > > > I'm new in mrtg and snmp, but I've successfully installed mrtg and it's > > > running smooth now.. > > I got a question though... > > I just ran nmap on my server and found to new ports that's open: > > Installing MRTG and having open ports are totally unrelated. > MRTG isn't a server application and doesn't listen to ports. > > Alex > -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
