I think they took it out to simplify their product for their target audience. An audit of my network says SNMP isn’t enabled on any of my other stuff. Whether because I couldn’t see the use, because I could already get that information with SSH or UPnP/IGD, or because it was buggy, or perhaps even because not having it on my Wi-Fi base station (the newest AirPort) meant I had little reason to use it anywhere else, I couldn’t really say. It’s off, though, so maybe Apple has a point. Unfortunately, it still puts them out of a certain league, and given that there are third-party utilities (like Peak Hour or Networkx) that know how to interrogate that data for the benefit of customers, it does represent lost functionality that many of their rivals now have, even if you simply enable the UPnP server to get bandwidth statistics. This makes me sad.
Broadcast pinging probably won’t be very useful now, no. Anyway, that says nothing of link-local or IPv6 nodes that might not even have or need an IPv4 address statefully assigned to them by your network. Still, for better or worse, looking at the DHCPv4 server leases table is a nice way to identify which clients are actually on your network, at least while IPv4 is still expected to be available and in use. I believe SNMPv1 is still the de facto. Everything from that point on is really optional anyway, there are ways of protecting it (IPSec, DTLS) and as you say SNMPv3 just isn’t simple any more. People will IMO always know SNMP as “that protocol for getting and setting variables” and authentication will always be the community string. I’d love to be proven wrong on this, but once again theory and practice don’t seem to be in alignment. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
