[ale] Switch for monitoring via SNMP

[Boris Borisov]

Openwrt on some midgrade wifi router perhaps.

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 20:55 Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I'm switching ISPs and the new modem does not provide logging or SNMP
> access so I can get traffic information through something like MRTG. So
> I figured I'd put a switch in front of the modem and then monitor the
> traffic that way (with a catch).
>
> 1: Any gigabit switches out there that aren't cloud-based and will still
> give me SNMP? I have some Netgear ProSafe Plus switches but those lack
> SNMP. The ProSafe Pro line has SNMP but requires a cloud account to
> manage the switch.
>
> 2. My original thought was to use a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter (which I had
> sitting on a shelf) to divide things up into some VLANs so that things
> like streaming devices would hang off a couple ports VLANed away and
> using the internal DHCP server and firewall to control traffic, other
> things would hang off other ports, also VLANed away, and the management
> of the switch itself would be inside my network so I could pull stats.
> Problem was that it's only 100 Mbit. But perhaps that's going overboard?
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