[c-nsp] MRTG graphing traffic that hits an ACL

[Dave Weis]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:
> Dave Weis <> wrote on Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:11 PM:
>
>> I wanted to graph how much bandwidth or how many packets match a
>> specific ACL on a 2600 series router. Does something like that show
>> up in the SNMP MIB and how do I reference it with MRTG or similar?
>
> no.
> Not sure if this works, but if you really need to find out, you could
> try to put this traffic into a QoS class, use the "drop" directivy in
> the appropriate class within a policy-map and monitor the offered rate
> using QOS-MIB (not sure if we maintain per-class BW in this case, if
> not, a policer with "drop" as conform- and exceed-action will likely
> do).
> But this MIB is not trivial, and this definitly has a performance impact
> (unless you're already doing QoS)..

Any less painful method to see how much bandwidth a specific type of 
traffic is consuming?

Thanks
dave



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