[ale] Bandwidth tracking

Nick Travis linuxnews at wormfishin.com
Tue Sep 2 13:58:19 EDT 2003


i've found that linux and token ring work fine together if you are on a
token ring switch, if you are on a hub it works but it's not the most
reliable.

unfortunately, the switch doesn't have the capibility to track the bandwidth
usage.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Bandwidth tracking


> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:35:53PM -0400, Nick Travis wrote:
> > i'll be monitoring hosts on a IBM token ring switch...
>
>
> How "intelligent" is the switch?  Will it keep track of
> load on a per host basis?
>
> I'm not sure how Linux plays on the token ring side.  Since
> you are on Token Ring, i would being looking at some commercial
> applications that will do it for you.  Maybe a piece of
> hardware.
>
> Chris
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