Joel, Not to sound rude, but there are numeorus how-to's on snmp. It runs as a service, a service that has a read/write property to it, and though it is limited it can be exploited, seriously look at the man pages/how-to's on this, you need to understand what your configuring.... ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com