From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 7:37: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.comrax.com (dns.comrax.com [194.90.246.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E35837B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:37:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from NOOR (unknown [156.27.243.27]) by dns.comrax.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 334F212C7A6; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:34:02 +0200 (IST) From: "Noor Dawod" To: "David Raistrick" , "Darryl Hoar" Cc: Subject: RE: Network Monitoring Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:30:45 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG BigBrother has many security holes, I recommend not to install it at all. Noor -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Raistrick Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 5:30 PM To: Darryl Hoar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Monitoring 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message