Re: RMON in hardware

[Stephen Grau <[e-mail]>]

> 
> The only RMON in hardware that I am aware of involves hubs. Cabletron has 
> I think three different models that currently do this and I'm pretty sure
> Synoptics does it. I haven't heard of any router products that do this. It 
> would seem that the pocessing burden for routers is already too high to 
> consider adding RMON, at least that's my guess. 
> 
> Pete Morrissey
> 
Novell's NetWare LANalyzer Agent (RMON probe) integrates with the NetWare
Multi-Protocol Router to create a solution that shares hardware
resources between routing and monitoring.  In fact, the LANalyzer Agent
can be run in conjunction with all other services that run on NetWare -
file and print, databases, etc.

The LANalyzer Agent toggles promiscous mode off if CPU loading gets excessive.
This preserves the ability to communicate using management protocols and
also allows other applications sharing the hardware to continue operating
normally.

Steve
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