[H-GEN] Testing an ISDN link

[Christopher Biggs]

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Daniel Quinlan <daniel at netwise.net.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>    
>    the router supposedly supports SNMP but aforementioned support company
>    wants to charge $5000 for some software to use it. (yes that is 3 zeroes)
> 
>    they've got a linux box onsite and I'd love to use it to provide some sort
>    of usage stat's for the link
>    
>    anyone done this before?

A freebie SNMP browser like the TCL/TK packet "tkined" ought to be
able to grub through the snmp tables and produce status/activity
reports.  There are considerably more sophisticated packages around,
but tkined is pretty cool.  It even supports the private MIBs of
$GREEDY_ROUTER_VENDOR.

cjb

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