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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2001 03:55:27 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Promiscuous mode?
Message-ID:  <20010518035526.T26877@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <006201c0df70$81716f40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:59:46AM -0700
References:  <20010518025331.S26877@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <006201c0df70$81716f40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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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

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