From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 1:55:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from casimir.physics.purdue.edu (casimir.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46A237B423 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 01:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@physics.purdue.edu) Received: by casimir.physics.purdue.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2DCF318A47; Fri, 18 May 2001 03:55:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 03:55:27 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Will Andrews , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promiscuous mode? Message-ID: <20010518035526.T26877@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <20010518025331.S26877@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <006201c0df70$81716f40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <006201c0df70$81716f40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:59:46AM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.18 sparc64 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:59:46AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > 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. And how would I do that, when it doesn't have an IP address? It's just an El Cheapo Fujitsu DSL modem. > 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. Because it's a temporary (<3 months) situation. I'm not going to shell out cash for a proper solution when I won't be here for very long, and when the next network connection I'm getting will be for myself. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message