Hello,

I have always been advised that special characters and community strings
are a bad combination.  Like drinking and driving, it's dangerous,
sometimes you end up OK, but usually when you don't it's disasterous.

How do you like that?  A combination answer to a technical question AND a
holiday public service announcement all in one!!!!!!

Happy Holidays

Steve Valente
Nortel Networks
Bay Networks LOB
Optivity Unix Support


At 04:14 PM 11/25/98 -0500, Mary H Farris wrote:
>All,
>
>I am trying to test snmp access to one of our customer routers.   To test
>I used the "snmpwalk -c "  command but I can't seem to get snmp replies.  I
>put a sniffer on the ring where my nms server is and captured the snmp data
>going to this router.  What I found is that the community string the
>sniffer captured and the community string I used on the command line were
>different.  As an example if the community string was netview$monitor  and
>I typed  "snmpwalk -c netview$monitor routeripaddress"  then the sniffer
>capture would display the  community string  of "netview"   it would just
>drop everything after the $.   Is the $  a special character that cannot be
>used in community strings? If this is not a limitation
>
>thanks,
>
>Mary_Farris AT freddiemac DOT com
>