(I?m not sure who wrote this ?)
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>> Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be feasible. The issue is that my ISP
blocks SNMP outbound -- I have no idea why they would so such a thing. And as far as I
can tell there isn't any way to tell Cisco to accept incoming SNMP requests on any
port other than the standard one.
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There is a fairly simple answer. Have those routers that are willing to be polled for
their DECnet information join a single mGRE tunnel. Send the SNMP queries to each
router?s mGRE address. That will completely bypass any blocking ISPs.
Mark Berryman