From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Nov 24 18: 6:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887C437B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:06:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from buck.Hughes.com.au (ns1.Hughes.com.au [203.16.25.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1796C43EA9 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:06:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bambi@Hughes.com.au) Received: from fawn (szpp-p-144-139-27-216.prem.tmns.net.au [144.139.27.216]) by buck.Hughes.com.au (8.12.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id gAP1xBk2086173 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:59:12 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from bambi@Hughes.com.au) From: "David J. Hughes" To: Subject: RE: 150 VLANS?? Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:04:31 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 V5.50.4910.0300 Importance: Normal In-reply-to: <02Nov25.145155nzdt.119050@homer.fire.org.nz> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message