AW: [f-nsp] Accounting VEs/vlans via SNMP (mrtg)

[Sam Stickland]

Hi Gunther,

I've spoken to Foundry engineers on this and they tell me it's a hardware 
limitation of the BigIron's, and it can't be fixed in software.

Sam

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Gunther Stammwitz wrote:

> Hello Cliff,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Just found the answer in the archives too.
>
> It is absolutely unbelievable that this feature isn't being supported yet by
> foundry. I mean hey almost every Cisco box can do it and this is really
> essential for accounting purposes using mrtg.
>
> What does foundry say? Is there some kind of roadmap?
>
> Best regards,
> Gunther
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Cliff Albert [mailto:cliff-nsp at oisec.net]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. März 2005 19:46
> An: Gunther Stammwitz
> Cc: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Betreff: Re: [f-nsp] Accounting VEs/vlans via SNMP (mrtg)
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:03:05PM +0200, Gunther Stammwitz wrote:
>
>> I'm currently trying to account the traffic in virtual router
>> interfaces
>> (VEs) on our Foundry Big iron 4000 that has been equipped with a gen4
>> management module via SNMP using MRTG.
>>
>> As far as I can tell accounting on real interfaces like ethe1/1 works
>> fine but on the vlans there's always zero traffic.
>>
>> Is there some kind of special option I'll have to configure in order
>> to get this working?
>
> It can not be done using SNMP or other means. The only way to do some sort
> of accounting on VE interfaces is using sFlow.
>
> --
> Cliff Albert <cliff at oisec.net>
>
>
>
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