[ale] Switch for monitoring via SNMP

[Ethan]

Mikrotik, used Brocade are good options for this.

On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 4:16 PM Phil Turmel via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I'm very happy with my Mikrotik hardware, fwiw.  (CRS328 at home, CRS354
> at work).
>
> On 4/20/24 15:29, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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