Re: [nsp] [nsp] Backplane and VLAN monitoring

From: Majdi S. Abbas (msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com)
Date: Tue Mar 20 2001 - 01:48:15 EST


On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 08:07:11PM -0500, Felix Lee wrote:
> I want to measure and monitor a VLAN and the backplane traffic of Catalyst
> 5500 and 6500, can someone teach me how to do it without any additional cost
> ?

        The backplane DMA stats available via SNMP are non-functional in the
5500s. Not sure about the 6500s, but the last time I checked cisco didn't
really care about supporting this.

        You may try leaning on them about it, but many have tried and
failed.

        --msa



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