Re: community strings for Reliance Globalcom

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Stefan Fouant
<sfouant () shortestpathfirst net> wrote:
> I could be wrong, but I think OP was requesting for BGP communities. I don't think he was asking for their SNMP 
> community strings - I've never heard of a situation where a provider would allow their customers to poll their 
> routers via SNMP.
>
> Or did I miss something?

Sorry--I was knee-deep in digging through IPv6 OIDs, so my
brain was all awash with SNMP community strings when I
saw the post.  You're right, in retrospect BGP communities
made more sense.

Apologies for the confusion.

Matt

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> On Jan 12, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Philip Lavine <source_route () yahoo com> wrote:
> > > does anybody have the community strings for Reliance Globalcom
> >
> > You might check to see if they left the default "public" read-only
> > string in place, but I highly doubt it.  Most people are pretty careful
> > to pick at least somewhat hard to guess community strings, and
> > to ACL them off from external querying.
> >
> > Matt