[HECnet] req for assistance: is snmp blocked for some / all ? does it work?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2021-11-30 22:50, Dave McGuire wrote:
>    If someone can present to me cogent arguments for moving away from 
> GRE tunnels on a Cisco onto a Python program running on a server that 
> doesn't involve "I hate Cisco" (which, while not explicitly stated, 
> comes through loud and clear in a number of these threads), and perhaps 
> offer some guidance and assistance in the configuration, it's something 
> that I would consider doing.

I can't speak for others, but it is very incorrect to assume any kind of 
animosity against Cisco from my remarks about dislike for Cisco here.
It has everything to do with them not speaking NICE.
Imagine it yourself, if you want to troubleshoot something, and in the 
middle of that problem is a black box that will not tell you anything. 
It really makes life harder for me.

Apart from that, I have no issues with Cisco at all. I'm constantly 
complaining towards Paul about omissions, deficiencies and so on in 
PyDECnet when it comes to NICE as well. The big difference is that we 
can get updates on PyDECnet, and it do speak NICE.

I can certainly agree that Python is not a high performance engine. But 
then again, HECnet isn't really running much traffic, or expected to 
deliver high performance. It's all for fun.

   Johnny

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