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Subject: Re: snmp broadcasts
From: Stephen McLarey <smclarey @ on . com>
Organization: ON Technology - Cambridge
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:14:00 -0400
To: trott @ remus . rutgers . edu (Richard Trott)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com (Firewall list)
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======== Original Message ========
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...

Richard Trott
trott @
 remus .
 rutgers .
 edu
======== Fwd by: Stephen McLar ========
Very good point. Some versions of Windoze 95 do not answer ARP correctly. As
a matter of fact Novell has an open ticket with Micro$oft concerning this
very issue.

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