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From: cpw%snow-white@LANL.GOV (C. Philip Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: SNMP monitors]
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Date: 25 Oct 90 20:29:53 GMT
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UP WITH ICMP!

SNMP is not enough.  What good is SNMP if the nodes on a network
do not support it.  And why should they.  They were on the net
before SNMP was a gleam in some relational database guru's eyes.

ICMP offers a lot more than SNMP cause it's there and SNMP is not.

I'm a raving supporter of TRACEROUTE and PING!  Five years from now
I'll switch to SNMP or something like it.   Hmmm, is that five or ten
years from now?  I forget.

Phil

PS:  I actually brought up some snmp stuff.  And for the nodes on
the network that support it, cisco router's, a couple of UNIX
machines running PSI stuff, and Multinet on VMS,  it's hunkydory!