Note: What is "standard"? Trango is not "standard 802.11", it is a proprietary product. Therefore its appropriate that its MIBs may not be "802.11" standard MIBs. I'm not saying that it is not good for vendors to standardize. But manufacturers may have a larger goal such as backward compatibility to their pre-existing proprietary platform. It would really stink, for someone that wrote a bunch of tools to a set of MIBS, and then have to redo all the work because the MIBs changed.
Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] deliberant/ligowave > 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: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
