Introductions

Traffic Management Readers,

I appreciate Kevin's original introduction and the thought of building
community by developing a peer-group where we can learn and grow.

Luther College is a small midwestern church-based college in the far
northeast corner of Iowa. We're working on changing over our entire
network to speak sFlow, if not X-RMON. We have approximately 200 switches,
including backbone, edge switching.

With multiple buildings all connected by fiber, we're heading towards an
OSPF backbone, with redundant fiber links and mesh between buildings.

Here's the scoop (or scope) of our system
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Hardware/Softare

      * 2xProcessor, 3GB RAM
      * RedHat Fedora Core 2 Linux
      * InMon Traffic Server 4.0.25

Relevant Background Information

      * University/Education traffic levels and trends
      * 1 Border Router - point of presence to the Iowa Communication
Network ( a state-owned - don't groan, we already know what we're missing -
fiber-optic system that touches over 110 communities in Iowa's schools,
colleges, city and county government, as well as the National Guard armories)
      * At present - 15 HP 53xx backbone switches
                        - 5 HP 6108 gig-port ProCurve switches
                        - 38 HP 4000m edge switches
                        - 40+ HP 26xx edge switches
                        - 25+ HP 25xx edge switches
      * Single host per port preferred, however our DSL network (approx 800
ports) go to dorms where we don't have ethernet wired at a port per pillow
just yet.

Features Activated/Installed

      * Named five Zones and fifteen Subnets, we have 10 VLANs on our
ResNet segment
      * Installed GraphViz for Path Analysis Graphical View
      * Configured RRD Options for backbones, many key uplinks and select
individual ports
      * Working on, but not happy with email notifications
      * Implemented Snort-like feature for 240+ rules - getting a few false
positives, but happy with this feature
      * Set security RulesCapture to 100
      * Active minutes set to 4880
      * HistoryDays set to 1 year
      * Trace enabled
      * SNMP community used
      * Thresholds set to different levels depending on interface speed

Les Yaw
Luther College
Network Systems Support Specialist
Decorah, IA
Received on Tue Oct 12 13:20:09 2004