Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Feb 2000 13:47:24 -0500 (EST) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment?? |
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 01:51:24 +0000 (GMT) > From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > > SNMP sweeping the subnet is reasonable if told to do so. The trace is far > worse, its DNS bombing the entire class C which is also other customers, > and its doing it without sensible delays between frames > > Given my past experience with certain broken HP Printer drivers (for > Windows) that would SNMP sweep an entire class A network at high speed, > I'm less convinced that this kind of scanning is *ever* appropriate. > Especially since given the use of CIDR, there's absolutely no guarantee > that a class C subnet is going to be local. More often than not, people > routinely get fractions of a class C these days, and the rest will go > out over a potentially slow link.
THANK YOU!!! Whoppie! I've been trying to get those #$@#%$@#% NT boxes to stop SNMP bombing my network for ages. The NT admins have not been able to find the cause, you nailed it perfectly. Thanks.
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