Securing SNMP across backbone networks

Author

Hia, H. Erik ; Midkiff, Scott F.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

196

Abstract

This paper addresses the problem of providing secure network management using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) across a backbone network. We compare using the built-in authentication and privacy features of SNMP version 3 (SNMPv3) and using SNMP version 2 (SNMPv2c) over IP Security (IPSec). Our results indicate that a framework based on IPSec offers functional and performance advantages. With respect to capacity utilization, our experimental results show that SNMPv3 consumes as much as 24 percent more network capacity than SNMPv2c over IPSec

Keywords

Internet; computer network management; data privacy; internetworking; message authentication; performance evaluation; protocols; radio networks; telecommunication security; IP Security; IPSec; Internet; SMNP version 3; SNMP; SNMP security; SNMP version 2; SNMPv2c; SNMPv3; Simple Network Management Protocol; backbone networks; built-in authentication; built-in privacy; capacity utilization; internetwork; network capacity; secure network management; wireless network; Authentication; Communication system security; Computer network management; Cryptography; Data security; Engineering management; IP networks; Protocols; Spine; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 2001. Proceedings. Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Scottsdale, AZ

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7128-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2001.956238

Filename

956238