Hi. This is the qmail-send program at lists.suse.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <suse-linux-uk-schools@ns2.suse.com>: Sorry, only subscribers may post. If you are a subscriber, please forward this message to suse-linux-uk-schools-owner@suse.com to get your new address included (#5.7.2) --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: <johnn@zuken.co.uk> Received: (qmail 1211 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2001 11:02:36 -0000 can I start with a question from a network newbie..... I want to use my linux box to look at the activity of a number of ports on a network switch. (I hope that I have the terminology correct). The problem is this: I do not have enough ports on the switch to connect all the rj45 ports available and make them all live. Every so often I take a look at the activity on the switch lights and record it on paper and then "guess" which ports have not had an activity on them for some time. I then pull the cables and patch into a port that some one wants me to make active. I sometimes get it wrong. In larger schools and organizations I know there is a way of getting port stistics available. Someone said that I can get this list from using snmp? Is this so? Is this yet another way to use this fantastic OS? Any thoughts/comments would be appreciated - even "RTFM" as long as you say which "M" ;-). Thanks John