Re: SNMP monitoring of ifInOctets and ifOutOctets on 802.1Q subinterfaces

From: Mark Ivens (mivens@clara.net)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 23:12:33 EST


Thus spake Przemyslaw Karwasiecki (karwas@ifxcorp.com):

> I am using 12.0(18)ST and 12.0(19)ST1 and even when
> you can find subinterfaces in ifTable, they don't have
> ifInOctets and ifOutOctets counters.....

Support for this was added in 12.0(21)S so you night want to wait for
the equivalent ST train release.

> Somebody mentioned to me couple of months ago some workaround
> solution with monitoring some VLAN bridge groups, but I cannot
> recall any details.

The suggestion I remember was using CAR on a subinterface and then
monitoring using CISCO-CAR-MIB.

> Does it really means that there is no way to monitor bandwith on
> 802.1Q VLAN subinterfaces while using Service Provider trim????

The other workaround suggested was to use the output of sh vlan.from
the CLI....

Mark



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