Re: Writable SNMP

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dorian Kim <dorian () blackrose org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 12:15:35PM -0500, Mauch, Jared wrote:
> > > Also, who tests snmp WRITE in their code? at scale? for daily
> > > operations tasks? ... (didn't the snmp incident in 2002 teach us
> > > something?)
> >
> > There's no reason one can't program a device with SNMP, the main issue IMHO
>
> There is one good reason. Every vendor seem to assign a junior intern to
> maintanining SNMP code, so you are interfacing with your router via a very
> suspect interface.

this is exactly my 'testing' commment... and you thought bgp bugs were
painful :)