[X-Unix] Control Airport *modem* from CLI

[William H. Magill]

On 25 Jun, 2005, at 02:53, Timothy Luoma intoned:
> I'm looking for ways to control the Airport Extreme's modem from  
> the commandline in 10.4.
>
> So far the closest tool I've found is /System/Library/CoreServices/ 
> RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/networksetup-panther  
> but it just turns Airport on and off, and doesn't do anything about  
> the modem as far as I can tell.
>
> Anyone know of a way?

If you can find the AEBS MIB file, you can possibly do it via  
SNMP. ... however, I don't know that Apple has ever published the  
proprietary portion of their MIB.  [Both Panther and Tiger come with  
net-snmp.] ["man -k snmp" to find all the parts of net-snmp.]

Nominally, one would simply use snmpset to turn it on and off.  
However, it does not appear to reference the modem. (I'm not using  
the one on mine, so it might just not be visible.)

Apple's AMU (Airport Management Utility, a download from the Airport  
home page) uses SNMP to query and configure the AEBS. You CAN use it  
to switch the "WAN Internet Connection" between Ethernet, PPPoE and  
Modem. However, that is not the same as "controlling the modem."

There is a copy of the "AIRPORT-BASESTATION-3-MIB" (which for the  
AEBS is SNMPv3) around someplace -- on the developer site as I  
recall, but I don't believe it has any info on the modem.  Put  
another way, the published MIB does not appear to cover much about  
the modem.


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