<p dir="ltr">Hi Kevin</p>
<p dir="ltr">Having recently implemented an SNMP agent, I strongly encourage you to try other options first.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Almost everything uses port 80 these days, so is that not an option?</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you need to subvert IT, socat on UDP port 53 is sometimes an interesting option.</p>
<p dir="ltr">a.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 Dec 2014 20:04, "Jason Nicholls" <<a href="mailto:jason@mindsocket.com.au">jason@mindsocket.com.au</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Don't do SNMP its a lot of complex work. However you could always do something on UDP over the same port.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 Dec 2014 01:31, "Craig Foster" <<a href="mailto:craig@fostware.net" target="_blank">craig@fostware.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If SNMP is “less firewalled” then they’re doing it wrong…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">SNMP allows configuration changes and file transfers on a lot of Cisco devices, and most devices will succumb to sensitive information
 leakage.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Any IT Admin worth their coin will firewall SNMP down to specific IPs, or even separate it to a management or OOB VLAN/Network.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">TL;DR Wouldn’t go down that path…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Craig F.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> plug [mailto:<a href="mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au" target="_blank">plug-bounces@plug.org.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kevin Shackleton<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 8 December 2014 2:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au" target="_blank">plug@plug.org.au</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [plug] Messaging using SNMP<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>Hi,<br>
I need to pass short strings from one pc to another. At present I 'm using TCP socket connections, since that works with Moxa NPorts too. In an environment where the IT environment is 'hostile ' perhaps SNMP might be a less firewalled alternative.  SNMP does
 look rather daunting to get into.  Am I wasting my time considering it?<br>
Thanks <br>
Kevin. <u></u><u></u></p>
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