| Title: | DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE |
| Notice: | Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7 |
| Moderator: | NETCAD::COLELLA DT |
| Created: | Wed Nov 13 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4455 |
| Total number of notes: | 16761 |
We are working to potentially displace another vendor for Switches as
an account in Iowa. We are evaluating the DECswitch 900EF in a DEChub
ONE and had a few questions...
1. Other than the tricks in the HUBwatch install guide, are there any
tricks to setting up slip from a PC running HUBwatch for Windows 3.1?
2. We are able to ping the DECswitch via an in-band connection. We can
ping the in band IP address and the out-of -band address... How is it
that we can ping the out-of-band connection through an in-band ping?
3. Is it possible to dump or send to a "file" the bridge address
tables? Can this be done using SNMP other than with HUBwatch? (We need
to do this because the other vendors switch may be "melting down" under
heavy load and part of the troubleshooting is finding which side of the
bridge certain devices are on...)
Thanks in advance. Ron Berndt @MWO Network Sales Engineer NPB
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1789.1 | 1: Easy. 2: unknown. 3: MIB vars to look at | SLINK::HOOD | I'd rather be at the Penobscot | Thu Dec 15 1994 18:13 | 25 |
> 1. Other than the tricks in the HUBwatch install guide, are there any
> tricks to setting up slip from a PC running HUBwatch for Windows 3.1?
It is very straightforward to connect via SLIP. Even VMS/Unix people like
me have successfully done it.
> 3. Is it possible to dump or send to a "file" the bridge address
> tables? Can this be done using SNMP other than with HUBwatch? (We need
> to do this because the other vendors switch may be "melting down" under
> heavy load and part of the troubleshooting is finding which side of the
> bridge certain devices are on...)
HUBwatch provides a dump-forwarding-database-to-file function in the 900
switch's forwarding database window. HUBwatch does it (in fact, HUBwatch
does *everything*) solely through SNMP. For each element in the forwarding
database dump, three MIB variables are examined:
dot1dTpFdbAddress
dot1dTpFdbPort
dot1dTpFdbStatus
The instance is MAC address. If you have some tool that lets you do a
generic MIB walk, those are the MIB variables you want.
Tom Hood
HUBwatch
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| 1789.2 | NETCAD::SLAWRENCE | Fri Dec 16 1994 12:10 | 9 | ||
On question 2 - We'd need to see more on how your network is
configured.
On dumping the addresses; I do this all the time with our bridges (and
the Gigaswitch). You don't really need to dump the dot1dTpFdbAddress,
since it's value is the index for the table, so you get it when you
dump either of the other two columns.
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