Re: Authentification Traps

On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:12:50 -0500 John wrote:
JA> We have a device that does not allow us to disable authentification traps.
JA> The trap receiver is set to ignor the abundant authentification traps
JA> sent.
JA> However, we would like to have this function disabled so that the messages
JA> are not sent.
JA> This is in a very large environment.
JA>
JA> The questions are: What triggers all these traps?
JA> Is is normal to just disable this feature? Why?

I believe it is a request with invalid authorization (eg bad community string).
It is only normal to disable if you don't care about logging unauthorized
access attempts.

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