[geeks] monitoring traffic on my switched LAN

Jeff Cole jeff at flambe.org
Mon Jun 11 08:44:08 CDT 2007


On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 12:44:36PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Well, the router is a Snapgear unit, embedded.  It has very limited capture
> ability because it has little internal storage.
> 
> The switch supports RMON and SNMP, but I have no idea how to gather traffic
> data from a source like that.

MRTG? Makes pretty graphs from snmp queries. http://www.mrtg.org

Also, information on collecting SNMP info from SnapGear units is at
http://www.cyberguard.info/snapgear/cgi-bin/fom?_highlightWords=mrtg&file=240

Jeff

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