From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 7:30:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from damoe.wireless-isp.net (damoe.wireless-isp.net [208.61.227.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2482937B404 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (keen@localhost) by damoe.wireless-isp.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eATFVBm58764; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:31:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:29:51 -0500 (EST) From: David Raistrick To: Darryl Hoar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Monitoring In-Reply-To: <002601c05a17$df7db8c0$0701a8c0@ruraltel.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Darryl Hoar wrote: > it and using it only for monitoring/managing my network. Is this hardware > going to be adequate ? Sure. But I guess we need to know /what/ you wish to monitor and manage. On our only managable switch, I graph all of the port traffic using mrtg. (I use mrtg to graph many other things, as well..) But I also use big brother to monitor connectivity of all of our WAN links. http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html http://bb4.com/ would get you started. Both are available in the ports collection, as well. ....david -- David Raistrick Digital Wireless Communications davidr@dwcinet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message