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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2001 00:59:46 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Will Andrews" <will@physics.purdue.edu>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Promiscuous mode?
Message-ID:  <006201c0df70$81716f40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010518025331.S26877@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Will Andrews [mailto:will@physics.purdue.edu]
>
>I don't know what a "CPE" is, but the gateway my system is connected to
>doesn't respond to SNMP requests.  :(
>

you have to turn them on.  The CPE is Customer Premise Equipment, it's the
so-called "DSL modem" (rediculous terminology as DSL modems neither
modulate nor demodulate)   For example a Cisco 675 will do SNMP if you
turn it on.

>I forgot to mention that currently all traffic goes through one IP
>address so I'm currently able to use mrtg to graph the usage through
>net-snmp on localhost.  That's changing soon though, hence why I'm
>asking about these things.  So I guess all I need is to figure out how
>to get the octet counts on the external interface once the network
>topology changes.
>

trafshow and friends will do this.  Another thing your overlooking, though,
is why don't you just purchase a managed hub?  Any hub with even a crappy
SNMP agent in it will give you octet counts, and the better managed switches
will give them to you per port.

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


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