[ale] Switch for monitoring via SNMP

[Phil Turmel]

I'm very happy with my Mikrotik hardware, fwiw.  (CRS328 at home, CRS354 
at work).

On 4/20/24 15:29, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> I think I may end up getting a Mikrotik CRS310. It has plenty of 
> bandwidth and would even support a 10 Gbps link to a remote switch 
> should I end up doing that in the near future.
> 
> On 2024-04-20 10:09, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
>> I'm not big on it neither but I do know it supports VLAN configuration on
>> the router ports aka uses the built-in hardware ability to setup ethernet
>> ports on different vlans.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 13:04 Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> No, I already have a router for my regular computers but the things like
>>> the streaming devices bypass that and go straight to the modem where
>>> they get NATed by the modem itself instead of me handling it.
>>>
>>> I just want to be able to see all the traffic the modem passes through.
>>>
>>> Plus I ditched OpenWRT ages ago. :)
>>>
>>> On 2024-04-20 09:21, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>>> _______________________________________________