Re: Load balancing

2007-05-08 Thread Nicolás Antoniello
If you choose etherchannel, also spend some minutes reading about the balancing algorithm for your platform. :) On Mon, 7 May 2007, Bruce Pinsky wrote: bep bep -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- bep Hash: SHA1 bep bep dan wrote: bep Hello, bep I currently have 2 routers with a single

Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-05-08 Thread Travis H.
Hey folks, I am following up to an ancient email because I'm curious if anyone has some SNMP-related resources. Basically, there's a lot of how-to or manpage sort of information, but I'm still unclear on what an MIB actually _is_, what problem ASN.1 actually solves, and more to the point how the

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-05-08 Thread Travis H.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:59:21PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: I think network engineers are too quick to use network identifiers for applications. Analogous to using names or SSNs or anything else as a primary key in a database. The database people already figured out that if you don't assign

F/OSS config mgmt or net mgmt apps

2007-05-08 Thread Travis H.
Oh yeah, I'm reading a book which mentions the following F/OSS config mgmt or net mgmt apps, was wondering if anyone has any opinions before I spend a lot of time forming my own: ISC router monitor (rtmon) (no known URL) router audit tool (RAT):

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-05-08 Thread Travis H.
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 05:23:10AM -0800, Roland Dobbins wrote: RFC1918 was created for a reason, and it is used (and misused, we all understand that) today by many network operators for a reason. I used 10/8 for my LAN a while back until my ISP's routers advertised in DHCP suddenly started

Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-05-08 Thread Matt Palmer
[If people think this is off-topic, please let me know and I'll take it to private mail with Travis.] On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:32:18PM -0500, Travis H. wrote: Hey folks, I am following up to an ancient email because I'm curious if anyone has some SNMP-related resources. Basically, there's a

Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-05-08 Thread matthew zeier
and more to the point how the whole shebang (I'm using net-snmpd) is typically used. Agent on device provides values, management app(s) collect data by polling (and possibly via traps), sysadmin gets to go home on time for once. I have yet to see this work in practice however.

F/OSS SNMP tools (was Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released)

2007-05-08 Thread Kevin Blackham
You only need to worry about vendor MIBs if you're trying to query/monitor something vendor-specific. Standard stuff like ifInOctets and ifDescr are included in everything. I like to either read through MIBs by hand, or load em in a MIB browser (like mbrowse or use vendor C's snmp explorer

Re: Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-05-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:10:56PM -0700, matthew zeier wrote: and more to the point how the whole shebang (I'm using net-snmpd) is typically used. Agent on device provides values, management app(s) collect data by polling (and possibly via traps), sysadmin gets to go home on time for