From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jun 20 16:18:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23825 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (ulf@gatekeeper.Alameda.net [207.90.181.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23816 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:18:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulf@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net) Received: by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.9.0/8.8.6) id QAA26130; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980620161837.B5732@Alameda.net> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:18:37 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Ben Schumacher , Paul Stewart , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tracking machine bandwidth Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: <199806202006.OAA12068@smtp.plinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806202006.OAA12068@smtp.plinet.com>; from Ben Schumacher on Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 02:06:06PM -0600 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 02:06:06PM -0600, Ben Schumacher wrote: > At 11:24 AM 6/14/98 -0400, Paul Stewart wrote: > >HI there... > > > >We are looking at getting into co-location for a number of clients > >currently (we are using about 15% of our bandwidth in peak times, kind of > >a waste). > > Sounds very similar to us. > > >Our problem is that we need to track the daily/monthly bandwidth used by a > >customer's box that we will have no root access to or worse yet, might be > >an NT box. Is there a mod we can make to MRTG or a similar program to > >track the bandwidth on 5 minute sampling that a particular box is using > >up? We currently use MRTG on our Cisco routers and it works great. We > >need a cost effective solution if possible. > > We do the very thing you are talking about, but instead we track usage off > of our 3Com Switch. You might want to look into getting a switch that > supports SNMP, this would certainly provide you with information you seek > and the interface with which to use MRTG. And if you are in the US, get a HP 224T switch, which costs ~$1400 incl. S/H at Provantage.com. You then can "trade in" old hubs up to $750. I did this for all my colocation hubs I have. > > Hope this helps. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message