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Re: SUMMARY: bw usage?
- From: Neil J. McRae
- Date: Fri Jul 28 10:08:17 2000
>
> Thanks to everyone who shared thoughts, ideas and experience
> regarding monitoring bandwidth usage on Ethernet switch ports
> without including broadcast traffic.
>
> EVERYONE tends to agree that a separate VLAN for each co-located
> customer is the only professional way to do things "right".
>
> I agree, and plan to move in that direction, fast. Then I won't
> have to worry about broadcast traffic, either!
>
> Other recommended solutions included:
>
> - MRTG
> This is great (I use it elsewhere) but it doesn't directly
> address the issue I have of *not* including broadcast traffic
You might want to look at cricket and RRDTool for a much more
scalable solution. [http://cricket.soundforge.net/].
>
> - Cisco 6500 switches apparently support "Private VLANS", which
> don't burn up IP addresses. Sounds cool, wish I had a 6500 ;-)
I'd be interested in finding out more about this as we are currently
using CAT 6500 switches and burning up IP addresses can you tell
me more about this?
Regards,
Neil.
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