[mrtg] Re: Vlans

Keith Woodworth kwoody at citytel.net
Wed Nov 2 00:42:44 MET 2005


On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Daniel J McDonald wrote:

|->On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 14:37 -0800, Keith Woodworth wrote:
|->> Using MRTG against a bunch of our switches (2950's and 3550's) for a long
|->> time and those switches have Vlans.
|->
|->vlans, completely layer 2?  or vlan interfaces that are diverse routing
|->entities.

yes they are just the layer 2 vlans.

|->> Is it worth it to graph Vlans?
|->
|->not for layer 2.  Those are all wirespeed fabrics, so you don't have a
|->constrained resource that graphing would allow you to predict anything
|->useful.
|->
|->for layer 3 it is marginally interesting when planning uplinks.

Thats what I sort of thought. The vlan graphs themselves dont show much in
the way of useful information.

Thanks,
Keith

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