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Re: Dynalink SNMP agent?

From: Michael Jager <mjager_at_mac.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 19:09:18 +1200
Message-ID: <B948FC5E.7167%mjager@mac.com>

claiming to be Jason Walker, <jason@dmd.co.nz> said:

> I can confirm that the RTA210 has SNMP running by default, I was using MRTG
> to look at mine last night, and then walked the whole Agent which is where I
> found my username and password as plain text for all the world to see...

:o Thanks for the heads up :P

For everyone's information, mapping port 161/udp to a nonexistant IP (as is
recommended for telnet and http) appears to prevent external access to snmp.
Some more research by a more clued up person may be required to confirm
this.

Michael

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