[ale] Switch for monitoring via SNMP

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Sat Apr 20 13:08:03 EDT 2024


I don't want to recreate a router, I already have one that handles the 
main traffic running on a machine bigger than a Pi.

The important thing is to see all the traffic that the modem is handling 
because the streaming/IOT VLAN bypasses my current router and gets 
handled by the modem directly (NAT onto the modem's external IP, my 
router uses a different external IP).

So I either need a switch capable of handling VLANs with full local 
management and no cloud requirement or a big router capable of handling 
gigabit speeds across multiple interfaces.

On 2024-04-20 09:51, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
> 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?
> 



More information about the Ale mailing list