HardwareBanter - View Single Post - Mysterious internet/ethernet issue (kinda need testing/connection/communicationservice to diagnose it ???)

**Char Jackson** · October 12th 18, 09:22 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:36:49 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

sure the router doesn't notice what you're doing to it :-)
I can have my router send a log packet to this
PC, so I can see what's going on.

You're describing SNMP, but SNMP and SMTP (email) are just two methods
by which a networking device can send its logs to an external device.

SNMP is disabled according to folks on ziggo forum.

Here is my question for you:

Is SNMP only used for "cable modem status page" ? for ISP side ?

Or is SNMP also used to access cable modem menu ?!

If later then this explains why I cannot access my cable modem menu anymore.

SNMP is a protocol that a networking device uses to gather information
about itself, which it then typically dumps into a local log.
Optionally, it can also dump that info to one or more external devices,
usually for the purpose of consolidating the logs of multiple devices
into a single, searchable, location.

SNMP is not used to access your cable modem or router. That would be
HTTP, HTTPS, or possibly SSH or Telnet.