Mary - $ is a special string in UNIX - try either putting a backslash before
it, or enclosing it in double or single quotes.  I can't remember which one
of these will do it, but one of them will


-----Original Message-----
From: Mary H Farris <Mary_Farris AT FREDDIEMAC DOT COM>
To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 1:29 PM
Subject: A question about snmp community strings


>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
>