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It's OK to see any garbage in SNMP; I never got surprised (as I was not surprised when I killed firewall by snmpwalk). No one (in reality) makes good QA on SNMP functions (on routers or switches). I already have a few sanity checks in 'snmpstat', may be I should add one more (ignore answers with 0 counters). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Petri Helenius" <[email protected]> To: "Jim Popovitch" <[email protected]> Cc: "Alexei Roudnev" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 7:18 AM Subject: Re: public accessible snmp devices? > Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > > >I think this could be relevant. a LOT of devices drop snmp requests > >when they get busy or when too many incoming requests occur. Are you > >sure that you were the only one polling that device? Perhaps someone > >else put it into a "busy" state. Too often with SNMP devices and tools > >a '0' can mean things other than zero. > > > > > So you are saying that it's ok for a Cisco or Juniper router to return > zero for a counter when they feel "busy" ? > > My RFC collection tells a different story. > > Pete >
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