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Re: Collisions

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Subject: Re: Collisions
From: "Joel A. Gerber" <joel.gerber@USAA.COM>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:29:06 -0500
Christian,

Sorry for the delay in replying, but it appears that no one provided you
with the RMON MIB for collisions.  If you have a device/probe with RMON
capabilities, then it is another possible source of monitoring collisions.
It is in the RMON etherStats table, which is at

        .1.3.6.1.2.1.16.1.1.1.13

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Joe Fernandez [SMTP:jfernand@KARDINIA.COM]
        Sent:   Friday, October 01, 1999 21:59
        To:     NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
        Subject:        Re: Collisions

        Collision counter MIB variables are in the Ethernet MIB and in
various
        vendor enterprise MIBs.

        The snmp_mibs directory on your NV system should contain the
Ethernet MIB
        either in its January 1993 version as RFC1398, or a later version. (
        RFC1398 has subsequently been updated and made obsolete by RFC1623,
then
        RFC1643, then, for SMI v2, RFC1650, RFC2358, and finally RFC2665. I
suggest
        you load the latest one of these that you can find on your system.)

        However, even RFC1398 has a dot3StatsTable which has (among other
counters):
        dot3StatsSingleCollisionFrames
        dot3StatsMultipleCollisionFrames
        dot3StatsLateCollisions
        dot3StatsExcessiveCollisions

        Various vendor enterprise MIBs also have collision counters, so I
would
        also look in the appropriate enterprise MIBs for your
hub/switch/routers,
        try Gets on both sets of variables and compare them.

        Finally, I would, if possible, put a protocol analyser on for a
short
        period to verify that correct counts are being reported in the SNMP
MIB
        variables.

        At 10:14 AM 10/1/99 +0200, you wrote:
        >Is there any way of messuring collisions with snmp?
        >
        >I haven't found a MIB-variable for it anywhere, does it exist?
        >
        >
        >-----------------------------------------
        >Christian Frantsen
        >Technical Operations
        >
        >Internoc Scandinavia AB
        >Tel: +46-36-194843
        >Fax: +46-36-194651
        >http://www.internoc.se
        >
        Joe Fernandez
        Kardinia Software
        jfernand@kardinia.com

        http://www.kardinia.com


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