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From: adnan@sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Authentication for SNMP - Are there any standards?
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Date: 6 Feb 90 17:16:33 GMT
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In reading the SNMP RFCs I find mention of authentication of PDUs.
Are there any standards for authentication mechanisms.  For example,
if I make a widget which has a SNMP agent in it, how should I treat
the issue of authentication so as to maximize the number of
communities in which my product can be sold?  Are most networks going
to do trivial (read no) authentication?  What does the NYSERnet
(What's their new name? Performance something or another?) code do?
IMHO it seems dangerous to run a network with trivial authentication,
and thus allow complete strangers to reboot network entities at will.
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Adnan Yaqub
Star Gate Technologies, 29300 Aurora Rd., Solon, OH, USA, +1 216 349 1860
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