RE: SOHO-class user bandwidth monitoring

> Larry:
> 
> That's a good idea.  Doesn't give you L7 info, but it's no-cost and tells
> you which machine is generating the traffic.
> 
> They have an issue where Internet traffic is occasionally slow and would
> like to know what/who is causing that, plus they've been hit with a worm.
> 
> I agree with your points on control. =)
> 
> Frank
> 
This is just my opinion - but nothing is free.  You can spend the money
buying hardware that will take care of it or you can spend the money to have
a netadmin set up snmp and a monitoring system and manage it.  

When the sun goes down you will probably have the same amount of money
invested unless you consider your time as free.

What tips the balance is that if you do it with an internal snmp setup
either the customer will need an educated netadmin on staff or you will be
married to the project as a Chinese obligation.  Forever after anything that
happens on their network will be your fault.  

Better to recommend that they either handle it themselves internally or that
they purchase netflow capable edge devices.

JMHO
Kevin

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