From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 7:19:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hp.ruraltel.net (unknown [24.225.0.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA09337B698 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:19:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.ruraltel.net ([24.225.0.33]) by hp.ruraltel.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-68608U15000L4100S0V35) with ESMTP id net for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:19:11 -0600 Received: from darryl ([24.225.30.239]) by mail1.ruraltel.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-68608U15000L4100S0V35) with SMTP id net for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:21:26 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Darryl Hoar" To: Subject: Network Monitoring Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:20:13 -0600 Message-ID: <002601c05a17$df7db8c0$0701a8c0@ruraltel.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I have a switched 10/100 network. I have Superstacker II 3300 switches and DSH 500 hubs. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to use the Transcend (3COM) network management software. The version we are using is lame. I don't want to buy anymore of their software. I have a 486 DX 66 with 32MB Ram sitting around. I thought of installing FreeBSD 4.x on it and using it only for monitoring/managing my network. Is this hardware going to be adequate ? What software (ports) are recommended to accomplish my task ? Wanted feedback from someone thats cracked this nut. thanks, Darryl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message