[HECnet] Cisco DECnet routers and NML

[Dave McGuire]

On 5/5/20 6:30 PM, Tomas Prybil 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?

  Well, only if we can ALSO run on 161.  My upstream is bridged, and my
routing is done by the same Cisco as my DECnet stuff, so I can't easily
translate that for inbound requests.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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