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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:04:31 +1000
From:      "David J. Hughes" <bambi@Hughes.com.au>
To:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: 150 VLANS??
Message-ID:  <MBEKKDFNOOOCNGBGIOMHAEMJHAAA.bambi@Hughes.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <02Nov25.145155nzdt.119050@homer.fire.org.nz>

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> My next idea was to buy four cisco 48-port switches and have each port
> on a seperate vlan, then create 150 vlan devices on FreeBSD and use ipfw
> or ipf to count the bytes on each vlan device.

Or use an SNMP based tool to monitor traffic that flows in/out the
individual switch ports.  (e.g. TraffAcct available from
www.hughes.com.au - shameless plug ;-)


> Can anyone tell me if this is feasable? or am I doomed to fail?

Sounds perfectly normal to me.



Bambi
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