[nycbug-talk] Unmanaged Switch, SNMP traffic data?

[Mikel King]

On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:29 PM, pete wright wrote:

> On 1/3/06, Mikel King <mikel.king at ocsny.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 3, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Isaac Levy wrote:
>>
>>> Hey All,
>>>
>>> Do any of the Networking hardcores on this list have any good
>>> reccomendations for switches?
>>>
>>> I'm looking for the following:
>>> 24 port Gigabit Switches
>>> Unmanaged (though I want passive SNMP data so I can collect
>>> aggregate traffic usage?)
>>>
>>> Am I wishing for a product that doesn't exist?  I've found many
>>> good looking unmanaged switches, but no snmp- and I'd *really* like
>>> to simply do traffic analysis on a per-ip basis (snmp and mrtg
>>> would do just fine for this application).
>>>
>>> --
>>> I don't want to get into the layer2 and layer3 switches for a
>>> number of reasons, cost, complexity, more manageable stuff secure,
>>> and yet another device to plug a wire into...
>>>
>>> --
>>> OR, any other ideas on how to per-ip bandwidth analysis with
>>> unmanaged switches?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> .ike
>>
>> Dude,
>>
>>         I honestly don't know of any unmanaged switches that'll do  
>> all that
>> for you. General rule is no management::no snmp especially in the 24
>> port giga versions . On the other hand Adtran 1524 ST lists for like
>> $1300ish, and I've been buying them for a couple bills less through
>> channel. It's a great giga switch with all the bells and a few
>> whistles too.
>>
>
> do those guy's do large frames (9600 MTU)?  regarding the traffic
> analysis Ike, I'm agreeing with charles...

You mean jumbo frame buffers? They are supposed to be adding jbf  
support in the March release of the OS for the switch. I've been  
awaiting this feature since Sept 05, because we are doing iSCSI SAN  
systems and will need that come April.


Cheers,
Mikel King
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