[ale] Switch for monitoring via SNMP

Leam Hall leamhall at gmail.com
Sat Apr 20 12:51:41 EDT 2024


I'm not current on all the Fruit Pi (Raspberry, Banana), but they seems like an option.

I've seen the innards of a production Cisco switch, mostly casing to allow ports and easy rack mounting.

Leam

On 4/20/24 11:21, 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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