PPPoE to sbc dsl

[Charles Steinkuehler]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:charles at steinkuehler.net]
>
> > Since it's linux,
> > you can run FreeS/WAN (IPSec for VPN connections), snmp for stuff
like
> > MRTG, ssh, and pretty much anything else you want.
>
> Now here's something that's puzzled me - Multi-Router Traffic Graphing
> (MRTG) is apparently only useful if you're an ISP or larger corporate
site
> with multiple redundant external connections.  Why would you run such
a
> thing on a PPPoE system with one connection?

Why do you say that?  I find MRTG to be a generally handy tool, which I
run for a variety of reasons:

- I like pretty pictures ;-)

- While there's typically one external conection on each of these
firewall boxes, I typically monitor at least 4 interfaces on each
firewall:
    1) External interface
    2) VPN Virtual interface
    3) DMZ Interface
    4) Internal interface
    I have some systems with *LOTS* of interfaces...gotta love those
D-Link DFE-570TX Quad-port PCI NIC's!

- While each firewall box is pretty simple by itself, I'm currently
runing *NINE* Dachstein-CD boxes, most of which are inter-connected in a
partial-mesh VPN

...and finally...

- Because I can :-)

You don't have to be an ISP or big corperate site to want bandwidth
graphs...are you telling me you don't run web-stats or any log analysis
on your self-hosted personal web-site?  You do have a self-hosted
personal website, right, I mean this is a linux list, isn't it? :-)

Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net