>
> On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Joseph S. D. Yao wrote:
>
> > As your subject line notes, 161 == SNMP - Simple Network Management
> > Protocol. These machines may be trying to update their Network
> > Neighbourhoods?
>
> Is it generally safe to ignore snmp broadcast packets on your internal
> network?
>
> > As for why some and not others ... are they all the same version of MS
> > Winlose 95?
>
> Probably not...time to do an inventory...
>
The source of the SNMP PDUs is likely an HP printer driver installed under
Win95 that is attempting to auto-discover reachable HP network printers by
broadcasting SNMP 'get' requests and listening for responses.
Check in the Win95 Printer Manager for HP printers installed as network
resources...
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