Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-midcom-mib-01.txt

Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]> Fri, 14 May 2004 22:24:58 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.midcom
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On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:39:16PM -0500, Christopher A. Martin wrote:
 
> Just a thought...SNMP has always been the sore spot when it comes to
> managing devices behind a nat. Before snmp v3 I would never have asked
> rfor such functionality, but now...

See RFC 2962 for a discussion why the proper way to handle NATs is
the usage of SNMPv3 proxies. Note: I am not saying it is easy - just
that it is possible. ;-)

/js

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