It's also probably a demographic thing. If your product "just works" and
customers expect the access point to be an appliance to be plugged in
with minimal fuss or setup than most won't don't care about SNMP or the
lack of insight into wired devices. I also miss my Archie and Veronica
tools along with a properly formed BITNET chat but who even knows what
those are anymore. I just realized that I only have one wired device
left (an old PowerMac G4 in the basement) and everything else is my
household is on wifi (about 8 devices).
CB
On 4/2/16 4:09 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
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.
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