[HECnet] Cisco DECnet routers and NML

[Steve Davidson]

Paul,

If you want to try running your system/application from this (business) network I will be happy to set something up for you.  The Linux platform here is the latest version of Ubuntu server (20.04 LTS).

-Steve

SF:IP2

> On May 5, 2020, at 17:25, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> On May 4, 2020, at 1:35 AM, Tim Sneddon <tim at sneddon.id.au> wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 1:57 AM Peter Lothberg <roll at stupi.com> wrote:
>>> The Cisco DECnet router implementation does not speak "decnet management" as
>>> we all knew. The way we are using them the tunnel end-points are on the Internet.
>>> 
>>> Most of the information "missing" is actually available through the SNMP MIB,
>>> so if we could agree on a common read-only community and publish the IP addresses
>>> of those routers it would be possible to complete Paul's map.. 
>>> 
>> I would definitely be up for that. Maybe "hecnet-ro" for the community name?
>> 
>> Regards, Tim. 
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> 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.
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>    paul
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