[mrtg] Re: Can I use snmp to execute a command on the router?

[tony bourke]

Be very careful about doing this... SNMP is not meant to be a secure
protocol, and allowing plain-text read-write strings passed over a network
can be a bad thing, depending on the security of the network.

Tony


On
Fri, 1 Mar 2002, ÖÜÊÀ¾ü wrote:

>
>     Hello :
> When I am on a Unix host, and I want to have a command executed on the router through snmp, what can I do?
> Please help.
>
>             zsj at chinascape.cn.net
>
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