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

[Dave McGuire]

  I can assist with this, from the "real Internet".  Static addresssing, real hardware, UPSes, commercial facility, the works.  The only thing we don't have here that is like to have is an AS number and redundant upstreams.

                    -Dave

On November 30, 2021 12:32:18 PM Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
> I guess you can call Comcast "not real Internet" :-)
>
> Anyway, sure, if someone can supply a suitable host for it.  It's not a particularly demanding application -- a PyDECnet endnode that occasionally wakes up to do some NICE requests.
>
> paul
>
>> On Nov 30, 2021, at 12:26 PM, Peter Lothberg <roll at stupi.com> wrote:
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> Can't you just run the mapper from a place connected to the real Internet?
>>
>> -P
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Paul Koning" <paulkoning at comcast.net>
>>> To: "hecnet" <hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 12:20:07 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [HECnet] req for assistance: is snmp blocked for some / all ? does it work?
>>
>>> Mine is residential service, that seems to explain the difference.
>>>
>>> I just found a Comcast document that confirms port 161 is blocked.  If I can get
>>> proxies for interesting Cisco HECnet routers I can consider adding mapper
>>> support for that.  I just found a trivial UDP proxy (to a single destination):
>>> https://github.com/EtiennePerot/misc-scripts/blob/master/udp-relay.py --
>>> something a bit more complex could allow talking to several destinations, but
>>> this one may be good enough.
>>>
>>> paul


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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA