RE: DOH! - why didn't I think of that before?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Nick,

Not that I'm aware of. - there is no mention of SNMP in the manual, no
mention of how/where to set community names etc. and no mention of a MIB
anywhere on either of the 2 accompanying CDs..

Also, I've not found \anything buried away in the config screens to suggest
any SNMP functionality.

However, they are firmware upgradable - apparently VPN support is supposed
to be coming later this year... So I guess anything's possible.

I have however already solved the DDNS registration issue by using an
alternate DDNS client. As I suggested though, it has to poll the router
every x minutes, in order to detect an IP change, and the minimum value I
am
allowed to set for x is (in this version of the client) 5 minutes, so I
have
a potential 5 minute lag between IP address change and DDNS registration
reflecting it...


Paul G.



>From: "Nick Gunn" <ngunn@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] DOH! - why didn't I think of that before?
>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:33:19 +0100
>
>Paul,
>
>Does the router support SNMP queries?
>
>Nick
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 30 April 2001 16:12
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] DOH! - why didn't I think of that before?
>
>
>I got my whizzo new ISDN/ADSL router from SEG late on Friday evening
(it
>came when I was out, so the neighbour took it in)
>
>In no time at all, I've got it set up and working, and it is providing
my
>internet connectivity right now...
>
>and only now have I just realised one thing...
>
>How the hell am I supposed to use a DDNS service now? - previously the
ISDN
>connection was managed by MS Proxy server/external TA combination, so
the
>internet facing IP address was assigned to an interface on the NT
server,
>so
>it was a piece of cake to run a DDNS client there to register it each
>time...
>
>Now of course, the dynamic IP address is assigned to the router...
>
>Has anyone got any ideas for getting round this? - I need to detect
>whenever
>the router goes online, and then detect it's external IP, in order to
be
>able to register it with DynDNS.org
>
>The router does have a built-in webserver and telnet server for
>management/config, and one of the pages does show the connection status
and
>external IP, so the only idea I have had so far is to use a script to
>scrape
>the IP address from the webpage and or telnet service, and push it into
the
>DDNS client as a manual update... but that seems rather inelegant, and
>whilst I don't believe I'd have any difficulty with the script to
acquire
>the Address, I'm not so sure about automating the DDNS client to
register
>it. Also, I have the problem that unless the router can somehow trigger
the
>script to run when required, I'll have to have the script polling
>constantly
>just looking for an address change...
>
>All ideas greatfully accepted...
>
>Paul G.
>
>
>
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