Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 wrote: > One of my biggest pet peeves is that there is no standard first IP address > for units. Tranzeo uses 192.168.1.100, Deliberant is using 192.168.2.66, > Teletronics is 192.168.0.240, SmartBridges used 192.168.0.24 or .22, and the > list goes on and on. They also all use different out of the box passwords. > It would sure make MY life easier if these two main items were standardized!
I'd be happy if more vendors would standardize on SNMP, at the very least, and ideally export things like signal (and/or SNR) in a usable way. Trango gear doesn't use the "standard" MIBs for interface traffic, for instance (at least my older gear doesn't), so I can't easily graph throughput like I can with everything else in my network. Ligowave doesn't export signal levels anywhere in their (very minimal) MIB, instead asking you to use their proprietary software. Mikrotik makes some things tricky without their proprietary software, but at least it (The Dude) is free, and fairly handy for other things as well. Everyone that does bridged interfaces, there are quirks with bridge traffic counters (but I think that's a quirk in the underlying OS, since almost everyone just builds their stuff atop Linux and I've seen it do the same things). There's no unified way of monitoring, say, number of associations to an AP in a PtMP setup, or "average" SNR. If you want to win my undying affection, get a couple dozen vendors to adopt a unified wireless MIB structure. David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
