[ale] Switch for monitoring via SNMP

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Fri Apr 19 20:55:17 EDT 2024


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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