RE: high speed monitoring

"Ali Al-Shabibi" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>Oh, yes it will.  It still takes CPU cycles to process the information and
>generate the necessary SNMP packets.  If you're hammering the CPU once every
>millisecond to do this, it isn't going to have much time for anything else.


Sorry but packet forwarding is done in hardware , basically during normal operation a switch cpu utilisation is virtually zero. The CPU is only used during the startup phase of the switch (during STP), andother particular moments.

-- 
Ali Al-Shabibi

Contrary to popular belief, Unix is userfriendly....
it's just picky as to whom its picky with.


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