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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:46:17 +1000 (EST)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>
To:        Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSH port forwarding SNMP traps?
Message-ID:  <20020829044617.24051.qmail@web40110.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020828204011.N9924-100000@q.closedsrc.org>

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Hmmm. I wondered about that.  Thanks for clarifying.
Any ideas as to what I could use to forward this UDP
traffic then?

Thanks,
PJ

 --- Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> wrote: > On
2002-08-29, Paul Jansen scribbled:
> 
> # I'm trying to allow SNMP traps to get to a
> management
> # station on the other side of a firewall (that I
> have
> # no say in).  I can create an SSH connection to a a
> # particular host inside the firewall on port 22
> though.
> #  What I was thinking of doing was SSH'ing to that
> # machine and forwarding a local port to the
> required
> # port on the management station inside the
> firewall.  I
> # thought this was port 162 but when I try and send
> the
> # test trap I don't receive anything in the
> management
> # console.  Can anyone offer any help here?
> 
> According to:
> 
> http://www.rad.com/networks/1995/snmp/snmp.htm
> 
> SNMP works over UDP rather than TCP and I'm believe
> that SSH is only
> able to forward TCP data but not UDP.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Linh Pham                                        
> lplist@closedsrc.org
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