[HECnet] Cisco DECnet routers and NML

[Tomas Prybil]

On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 05:22:53PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> > On May 4, 2020, at 1:35 AM, Tim Sneddon <tim at sneddon.id.au> wrote:
> > 
> >> 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. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 	paul
Why don't we all agree on another portnumber like 10161 and do a PAT to 161 on
our destinations?

BR
/t