[ale] Etherreal and switches

[Michael Still]

On 9/28/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 10:54 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >
> > You won't be able to see traffic that doesn't pass through the first
> > XL.
> > So if someone telnet's from the lab to the demo boxes you won't see
> > their traffic (but you might see their DNS/PTR queries if DNS servers
> > are hanging off of the first XL)
> >
> > The only way to achieve this is to have all systems use a default
> > route
> > that is a device off the first XL, or to add another SPAN port on the
> > second XL.
> >
>
> Is I config port 23 as a span port for the 2nd XL should I plug that
> port into port 22 of the first so that port 23 of the first shows me
> traffic for both?
>
> > Are you looking to monitor RTP streams?
> >
>
> I'm just going to count packets and monitor bandwidth.  The idea is to
> alert when bandwidth usage it high across the network.
>

Err.. SNMP won't work for this?

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