Yes, the info is due to be made public today. We have been making personal calls to numerous ISPs as early of 2/20. Regards, Chris Hallman NSE NSP North Florida 3660 Maguire Blvd., Suite 200 Orlando, Fl. 32803 407-897-8744 office 407-903-7591 off-site office 800-365-4578 pager email: mailto:challman@cisco.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of John Fraizer Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 11:07 PM To: Sean Donelan Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor. On 26 Feb 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
It appears more than one vendor shared the same SNMP library (or SNMP programmer). Folks have sent me evidence at least two other vendor's equipment has similar responses to the same SNMP community string ILMI.
However, there are other non-related SNMP issues. Many SNMP implementations included the default community strings "public" and "private". If the operator doesn't change them, the defaults may still work. The other common SNMP implementation issue is if no community string is specified, the SNMP agent accepts any community string.
If you are checking your network, I'd suggest checking for all three possibilities.
IMHO, if no communities are supplied, the SNMP daemon should not respond at all. While I agree that "public" and "private" are "wellknowns," in most implementations, they at least show up in the code. Cisco chose to hide this one where it would not show up in the code. That IMHO is a very bad thing and does bad things to my confidence level in Cisco. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc