Yep, smux is the old way of having a hierarchical structure of snmp agents, 
a master and some slaves. another point is snmp proxy: an snmp agent
proxy some mibs for other devices and SMUX is the protocol used to communicate
between the master and the slaves. The new way to do it is called agent-X

JeF

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:21:38AM +1100, Christopher Booth wrote:
> Yes
> 
> smux199/tcp# SNMP Unix Multiplexer
> smux199/udp
> 
> But I read something online that said that it was now redundant
> 
> and http://www.sans.org/y2k/081400.htm
> talks about the port being used to as a hack attempt
> 
> The wierd thing is now I have smtp and pop-3 running on my laptop, which aren't 
>listed in the services in Mandrake Control Panel.
> 
> /etc/xinetd.d has a service called fam which I don't where it comes from either...
> 
> I turned off snmp so now have no smux
> 
> but lsof -i gives me
> @ausmasodp-121m init.d]# lsof -i
> COMMAND     PID   USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
> portmap    2159   root    3u  IPv4   4490       UDP *:sunrpc
> portmap    2159   root    4u  IPv4   4491       TCP *:sunrpc (LISTEN)
> routed     2466   root    3u  IPv4   4756       UDP *:router
> sshd       2491   root    3u  IPv4   4801       TCP *:ssh (LISTEN)
> xinetd     2534   root    3u  IPv4   4829       TCP localhost.localdomain:1024 
>(LISTEN)
> xinetd     2534   root    4u  IPv4   4833       TCP *:pop3 (LISTEN)
> xinetd     2534   root    5u  IPv4   4834       TCP *:swat (LISTEN)
> cupsd      2595   root    0u  IPv4   5125       TCP *:ipp (LISTEN)
> master     2929   root    9u  IPv4   5160       TCP *:smtp (LISTEN)
> 
> turning off postfix turned off smtp
> 
> I would like to turn off pop-3 and sunrpc but can't seem to find where they are 
>started.
> 
> I am checking in /etc/rc.d and /etc/xinetd.d
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:27:30 +1100
> "Anton Winter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 01:21, Christopher Booth wrote:
> > > I did a nmap scan of myself tonight and noticed that I have something
> > call smux open on port 199
> > > 199/tcp    open        smux
> > > 
> > 
> > port 199 is used by snmpd
> > 
> > -- 
> > Anton Winter
> > http://myrddin.org
> > 
> > GPG key id: 0x5B15EDE6
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