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

[Dave McGuire]

   Some brilliant soul has already written an IP stack for RSX. ;)  An 
SNMP implementation would seem to be a logical thing to do.

              -Dave

On 12/1/21 6:56 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Won't help much when I'm sitting at my RSX machine and try to 
> troubleshoot something...
> 
> But sure, if someone writes a tool that runs under RSX that can extract 
> information, and preferably do that given a DECnet nodename, then it 
> would certainly help.
> 
>    Johnny
> 
> On 2021-12-01 12:53, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>> Just wanted to say thank you all for responding to my original request.
>>
>> Johnny - the part of the MIB most people posted here makes it less of 
>> a black hole; it tells you the areas, hops and cost the Cisco sees 
>> when you are calculating why some area is going through North America 
>> for example. You could ask for a confidential read-only password from 
>> Cisco owners. foobar for mine will continue to work.
>>
>> Regards
>> Supratim
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT
>> QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet <http://www.update.uu.se/~bqt/hecnet.html>
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 1, 2021, at 6:02 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>>>                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
>>> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
>>> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
> 


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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA