<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">(I’m not sure who wrote this …)</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be feasible. The issue is that my ISP blocks SNMP outbound -- I have no idea why they would so such a thing. And as far as I can tell there isn't any way to tell Cisco to accept incoming SNMP requests on any port other than the standard one.</span><br class=""></blockquote><span class=""></span><br class=""></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">There is a fairly simple answer. Have those routers that are willing to be polled for their DECnet information join a single mGRE tunnel. Send the SNMP queries to each router’s mGRE address. That will completely bypass any blocking ISPs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark Berryman</div></body></html>