A question about snmp community strings

[Mary H Farris <Mary_Farris@FREDDIEMAC.COM>]

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@freddiemac.com