[ale] Switch for monitoring via SNMP

[Alex Carver]

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.
> 
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> 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?
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