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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2021-11-30 21:22, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
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>> On Nov 30, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Or to put it differently, if there is any reason why Cisco routers can't be replaced by PyDECnet nodes, I'd like to know what's missing.
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> Time? Knowledge? Money for new hardware?

I'd expect that money for hardware would not be a thing, since you can 
run that on a silly RPi for a few bucks.
But the other reasons are certainly true sometimes.

> I hope we are not going to start making rules about what is and is not allowed on the network.

We are not. Anything that can speak DECnet is welcome. I'm just 
expressing a bit of frustration in that the Cisco boxes are really the 
most opaque. The fact that people are trying to adopt SNMP to just get 
some stuff out that all other nodes can provide within the DECnet domain 
says it all.

But no, we should never exclude anything based on this. As long as it 
can communicate, it should be allowed.

   Johnny

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