From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 21:46:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D45037B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:46:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40110.mail.yahoo.com (web40110.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F88943E42 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:46:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vlaero@yahoo.com.au) Message-ID: <20020829044617.24051.qmail@web40110.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.61.155.10] by web40110.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:46:17 EST Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:46:17 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= Subject: Re: SSH port forwarding SNMP traps? To: Linh Pham Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020828204011.N9924-100000@q.closedsrc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 > Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek > http://closedsrc.org > closedsrc.org Every solution > breeds new problems > http://digital.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Digital How To - Get the best out of your PC! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message