snmp- simple network management protocol. I have heard that it is better not to have snmp running but I don't know why apart frmo the fact that it is always better not to have any services that you're not using. On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am getting scans to port 161/tcp from the scanners port 1234 . I checked the etc/services file port 1234 is search agent for Infoseek and 161 is snmp.
First of all what is snmp is there antyhing they can do from that port and finally what can I do to improve my pc. curently I have Suse firewall running and portsentry is up with audp and atcp flags
Thanks in adnvace
Togan Muftuoglu toganm@turk.net
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