>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Taht <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> Jim> I don't think that is the only place where we may have such
>> Jim> issues; SNMP comes to mind, but I don't know how commonly that
>> Jim> is used in home environments. - Jim
>>
>> SNMP is unused in home networks.
>> I don't know why there is any issue with SNMP though.
>>
Dave> The elephant in the room is that we no longer have E2E connectivity in
Dave> much of the world, so centralized polling utilities
Dave> such as those that use snmp, can't work through the multiple layers
of NAT.
Dave> The edge has gone dark.
I think the edge never had any light :-)
Dave> I wouldn't claim that snmp is unused in home networks, but it is
Dave> sorely underused, as the relevant monitoring utilities are complex to
Dave> setup and maintain.
Dave> I've been explicitly enabling snmp over ipv6, I note, and using tools
Dave> such as those available from 'dartware'
I agree --- I've put IPv6 (non-connected networks) into a number of data
centre operations specifically so that I could use SNMP. I am not
familiar with dartware... is it: http://www.intermapper.com/
I think that E2E into the home for SNMP is perhaps one of the things
that would motivate an ISP to support homenet.
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