Problem with SNMPD

icarusjj · 10-26-2007, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kangen

THANK YOU!!!!!

I use iptables for my firewall, is it really nessessary to use the hosts.allow/deny in additional to the iptables? Or will my system be exposed to treats if I disables the hosts.allow?

I found it was, even tried turning off iptables for a while. Once I added the entry to hosts.allow it worked. You want to keep hosts.allow as restrictive as you can, only allow what needs to be allowed.

kangen · 11-13-2007, 05:45 AM

Again a new problem araise..

Now I have got SNMP to work on localhost, but when I am trying to access SNMP from a host across the network I dont get any response from snmpwalk, when im running a portscan port 161 is not responding.

I have configured the snmpd.conf to use community key public and source is set to default. The firewall is set to

Code:

 iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 161 -j ACCEPT

and the hosts.deny file is empty..

I think it might be a configuration problem on snmpd? anyone?