It may be unconventional to offer DD-WRT on professional bids, but Buffalo Technologies sells models with the firmware preinstalled for fairly decent prices: http://www.buffalo-technology.com/technology/partnered-software/dd-wrt/ (I didn't dig deeper to find if they have any models that DON'T have wireless, but wireless can always be disabled).
DD-WRT is definitely geared towards wireless routers, but all of the ports (Including the WAN port) can be assigned to the switch, or any VLAN (At least on Broadcom chipsets... I have the understanding from reading various articles in the past that Atheros treats port addressing slightly differently). I've never used the SNMP features, but the protocol is supported: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/SNMP I have found DD-WRT to be highly configurable, and while it's built-in graphing is limited, I imagine that their SNMP support expands that substantially. If you can convince your client to buy into a community developed project, DD-WRT might fulfill their need. On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:20 AM, wes <p...@the-wes.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > One member of the family that owns the plant also owns some sort of a > > business computing consulting or services company. He wishes that I had > > used a managed switch so he could know how busy my network was and I > > don't know what else a managed switch would tell him. > > > > > A managed switch offers tracking of the traffic on each port, accessible > via SNMP so you can easily create graphs and such. > > -wes > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
