Re: SUMMARY: bw usage?

["Neil J. McRae" <neil () COLT NET>]

> Thanks to everyone who shared thoughts, ideas and experience 
> regarding monitoring bandwidth usage on Ethernet switch ports
> without including broadcast traffic.
>
> EVERYONE tends to agree that a separate VLAN for each co-located
> customer is the only professional way to do things "right".  
>
> I agree, and plan to move in that direction, fast.  Then I won't 
> have to worry about broadcast traffic, either!  
>
> Other recommended solutions included:
>
>    - MRTG 
>      This is great (I use it elsewhere) but it doesn't directly 
>      address the issue I have of *not* including broadcast traffic

You might want to look at cricket and RRDTool for a much more
scalable solution. [http://cricket.soundforge.net/].

>    - Cisco 6500 switches apparently support "Private VLANS", which
>      don't burn up IP addresses.  Sounds cool, wish I had a 6500 ;-)

I'd be interested in finding out more about this as we are currently
using CAT 6500 switches and burning up IP addresses can you tell
me more about this?

Regards,
Neil.