Performance

[Giorgio Zarrelli]

Hi,

If you just want to check if a host is alive, icmp is the protocol  
that's always been used for this purpose.

I use snmp mostly for appliances, eg. Routers, firewall and switches,  
wherr I can't install a proper Nagios client to rely on.

Ciao,

Giorgio

Il giorno 15/mar/2010, alle ore 23.02, Eduardo Barreto  
<lecb79 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Hi All, Could anybody tell me what's better, checking hosts through  
> icmp protocol or snmp? What are the risks or may set the network at  
> all on a poor status?
>
> Cheers
>
> Eduardo Barreto
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