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- From: eengelke@sail.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke)
- Subject: Re: wanted, traffic monitor with snmp access
- Message-ID: <Bs48pD.KxK@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Jul28.133252.19798@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Jul28.160618.21630@tridom.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:24:48 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- dorl@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Michael (NMI) Dorl) writes:
- >|> I have a need for a ethernet monitor that would gather
- >|> statistics on all traffic to or from a given ethernet
- >|> address for IP traffic with a given IP network number.
- >|> Information must be retrievable with snmp.
- >|>
- >|> What I have in mind would be something like a PC or a
- >|> Unix worskstation with an ethernet interface. The PC
- >|> would spy on all traffic on the ethernet and would
- >|> select traffic to or from a given set of ethernet
- >|> addresses. It would examine the source and destination
- >|> IP numbers of this traffic for a set of IP network
- >|> numbers (IP addresses anded with a mask would be nice)
- >|> and accummulate in/out tarffic stats (bytes plus
- >|> packets) for each IP network number. It would be
- >|> great if the device made this information available via
- >|> snmp router interface mib variables (each network would
- >|> be a kind of pseudo interface) but other snmp access
- >|> would be acceptable.
- >|>
- >|> The application is to measure the traffic passing
- >|> through a router for a set of IP network numbers.
- >|>
-
- Look around dutepp0@et.tudelft.nl [130.161.144.65], some
- excellent work at the Delft University in Holland has
- produced some wonderful freeware applications which do
- network monitoring and are SNMP queriable. Some of the
- applications run under DOS, others on Unix.
-
- Erick
-
- --
- Erick Engelke Engineering Computing
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo TCP Architect erick@development.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
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