The problem with ssh is it's "out of band" as far as hecnet is concerned. It would be nice if the discovery was purely decnet. Ian Sent from my iPhone On 2013-01-07, at 9:25 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 01/07/2013 09:57 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote: The "SHOW DECNET NEIGHBOR" and "SHOW DECNET ROUTE" commands are both non-priviledged. Perhaps we could allow a 'trusted' network mapping daemon the ability to get a remote console on the Cisco and execute and parse these commands? I think all of us with Ciscos are running new enough firmware to support SSH. We could set up public keys for the automated data retrieval. That would be easy and relatively secure. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA --- Filter service subscribers can train this email as spam or not-spam here: http://my.email-as.net/spamham/cgi-bin/learn.pl?messageid=E03B65D4595311E28…