> On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, John Stumbles wrote:
>
> > FWIW the price of hubs with embedded RMON agents is so low these days it's
> > hardly worth trying to hack one up in software; e.g. the 3Com PortSwitch
> > Hub 40 has 4 segments with RMON1 on each, equivalent to a 4 port RMON
> > probe, for around 500 uk pounds for 24 ports (less for 12 ports).
>
> I think that for 500 uk pounds you won't get a full (nine groups) RMON
> implementation. So this might be true as long as you don't want anything
> like matrix or packetCapture.
The PShub does all 9 (I think) - certainly matrix and packet capture.
How well it's implemented is .... well, I'm sure it reaches the standards
of quality we expect from 3Com ;-)
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John Stumbles j.d.stumbles@reading.ac.uk
Computer Services, University of Reading http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~suqstmbl
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