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Re: RMON in hardware

"Karl Auerbach, Empirical Tools and Technologies, 408/427-5280" <karl@empirical.com> Wed, 13 April 1994 23:05 UTC

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 > Novell's NetWare LANalyzer Agent (RMON probe) integrates with the NetWare
 > 
 > The LANalyzer Agent toggles promiscous mode off if CPU loading gets excessive.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but does this mean that it
resets sysUpTime whenever it drops out of promiscous mode?

How can a manger know that the counts that the rmon then gives are
skewed because the agent is only running part time in promiscous
mode? 

			--karl--

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