NEDRI for network engineers on Mac

Planned NEDRI developments.

Planned features and ideas under study: these developments are not available in the current version and have no fixed release dates.

NEDRI stands for Network Exploration, Diagnostics, Reference & Inspection.

2026-10-27 · Stable : 1.0.2 (Build 122) · Beta : 1.2.0 beta 1 (Build 139)

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Planned developments

IP and service diagnostics

Advanced DNS, DoH/DoT and server comparison

Iterative resolution, multi-server comparisons and encrypted DNS transports.

VLSM plans and annotated subnets

Multi-requirement plans, named reserves and IPv6 prefix allocation.

Multi-target ping and advanced network controls

Multi-target ping, TTL, DSCP and MTU/DF measurements remain separate planned extensions.

Discovery resumption and pacing

Resume unfinished targets with explicit pacing and network limits.

Traceroute UDP/TCP

Planned traceroute extensions with UDP or TCP probes, beyond the current ICMP engine.

SNMP and switching

Extended MIB resolution and suggestions

Extend SMI/textual conventions, indexing and module suggestions using device data.

Hardware and subnet inventory

Components, serial numbers, sensors and multi-device inventory; current SNMP inventory is limited to eight standard objects on one target.

Manufacturer firmware versions

Compare installed information with official sources for the exact model without automatic updates.

VLAN Explorer

Inspect VLAN information and its associations with switch interfaces.

Offline network references

Extended offline references

Application port entries, editorial categories, errata and contextual links while preserving provenance and revisions.

History and reports

Device profiles and vendor adaptations

Reusable settings, shared intervention context and documented internal rules.

Local monitoring and alerts

Automated local monitoring, thresholds and outage or recovery alerts remain to be developed.

Extended reports and contextual references

Date filters, analysis selection, templates, charts, observation-linked citations and annotations.

iOS/iPadOS edition

Mobile interface and capabilities remain to be defined; no automatic macOS feature parity.

Ideas under study and longer-term directions

IP and service diagnostics

Routing tables and router-based diagnostics

Route reading and comparison; another observation point depending on permitted capabilities.

DHCP pool and DNS audits

Range usage and forward/reverse DNS consistency; methods and permissions remain to be defined.

OS suggestions from network fingerprints

Internal probes and rules with explicit confidence after application identification.

TLS and TCP protocol extensions

TLS version/cipher enumeration, additional STARTTLS variants and further account-free exchanges. Continuous TCP tests and detailed timelines are deferred.

SNMP and switching

MIB favourites, table views and capability search

Favourites/OIDs, targeted refresh, table pivots and multi-device queries.

Topology map

Display LLDP/CDP and routing observations with provenance and uncertainty.

SNMPv3 Events

SNMP v1 traps and v2c traps/informs. Informs are acknowledged; SNMPv3 notifications are not supported in this version.

Services and analysis

Traffic generation and load tests

Bounded synthetic traffic, separate from throughput measurements and real observations.

Terminal history, serial console, SFTP/SCP and tunnels

Command/response history under study, transfers and tunnels; separate from existing connection event history.

Long-term security auditing

Service hygiene, advisory/CVE correlation and authenticated read-only audits after diagnostic tools. No vulnerability scanner is currently delivered.

sFlow

Collect and analyse sampled traffic exported by equipment.

Syslog TLS

Syslog RFC3164 and RFC5424, over UDP or TCP. TCP accepts octet-counted or newline-delimited messages. TLS is not enabled.

History and reports

Configuration collection, comparison and auditing

Before/after and startup/running archives plus local audits with internal rules; access and storage remain to be defined.

Before/after comparisons and shared timeline

Scans/SNMP/DNS, internal check profiles and time-based correlation of measurements.

Apple integrations and secure credentials

Touch ID, Quick Look, notifications and Spotlight integrations remain under study.

Library source policy

User imports of MIBs, RFCs and other corpora, including drag and drop, have been discontinued. Only project-curated references are planned.