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

[Johnny Billquist]

I'm sortof considering it. I can certainly do SNMP agent and client for 
RSX. Probably skipping some of the horrors in v3.

But I'm still left with the problem that when I look at something, and 
start following the path of packets I'll get to a Cisco box, and the 
only thing I have is the DECnet node number. I don't have any way of 
talking SNMP based on that information... Unless the Cisco box actually 
talks SNMP over DECnet.

   Johnny

On 2021-12-01 16:16, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
>    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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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