From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 17:23:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1869A16A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:23:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from swin.edu.au (c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au [136.186.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560F843D31 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:23:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au) Received: from pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au (pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au [136.186.229.26]) by swin.edu.au (8.9.3p2-20030918/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA800778; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:23:34 +1100 (EST) From: paul van den bergen To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:16:47 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org References: <200312151656.44591.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401061216.47187.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> Subject: Re: wireless monitoring of APs??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 01:23:38 -0000 On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 05:03 pm, Randy Bush wrote: > most APs have snmp sorry for the delayed response, I've been away :-) as usual, answers raise more questions... and another hole in my knowledge.... snmp = simple network management protocol, I presume, and allows network state data to be transported across the network. So how does this help me use the AP to monitor the network? as far as I can see I would need... 1) hardware/software on the AP to monitor the traffic and convert it to suitable snmp format packets and transmit on the wire. 2) software somewhere else that the AP can talk to that can interperete the snmp signals... I can imagine APs would have a variety of snmp capabilities, so this would essentially be model-specific. How about snmp information display programs for FreeBSD? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824