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SNMP on RBR50v2 and RBS50v2?
I searched the forum for "SNMP", yet most "can't do" answers are left from 2017, and since then there have been many NOs that turned into YESes by hardware/software updates. So, I'll refresh the ques...
Following up on this old post because hoping that someone made some progress with it? I'd love to be able to see network traffic per device and it seems I need to enable SNMP to do this.
As far as I know, none of the Orbi products have ever had a feature to collect usage information by device. Nor do they include the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). In other words. No chance in hell.
CrimpOn Thanks so much for the reply. Any ideas for how to do this (without having to buy a router that does support SNMP and running the Orbi's in AP mode)? I've been poking around and so far I've tried:
- Little Snitch - only monitors the traffic per app on the device it is running
- PeakHour4 - requires SNMP
- SolarWinds - for windows only and also requires SNMP
- PRTG - doesn't require SNMP but requires a windows machine (I'm on a Mac)
Seems like the odds are stacked against me. Any advice you have would be very much appreciated
Sorry to have been so terse. I, also, am frustrated that other vendors include this feature and Netgear does not. It may be possible to accomplish this by running software directly on the Orbi router. I tried internet searches along the lines of "Linux... network... traffic by device" and quickly got in over my head. (For example: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/linux-network-bandwidth-monitor-traffic )
I had hoped that Voxel's third party firmware (for only the RBR50 series) would have the capability, but it does not. What Voxel does have is the ability to load more software and preserve it across a reboot. (With the Netgear firmware, when the router reboots the entire operating system is refreshed from read-only memory and anything the user might have done gets erased.)
http://www.voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/Voxel/html/orbi.html
So, if a person can figure out how to make one of those tools work, it can be added to the router Linux software.
A "poor substitute" is to use the LAN/WAN capture feature on the debug page to capture everything that goes through the router for an hour and them use the Wireshark feature to Show Conversations to see which device is communicating with which. If internet access is the primary subject, I have had luck with monitoring the router-modem link and collecting everything that goes across the link into a Wireshark file for analysis.
This is not a trivial project.