At 10:06 AM 1/8/01, Pierre-Alex wrote:
>Please pardon my ignorance.
>
>Why did Cisco invent RMON?
They didn't invent it. The IETF developed RMON in the early 1990s because
the standard MIBs at the time lacked statistics on data-link and
physical-layer parameters. The standard MIBs were focused on IP and upper
layers. The first RMON MIB provided Ethernet traffic and fault info, such
as CRC errors, collisions, etc. In 1994, Token Ring was added for stuff
like soft-error reports, beaconing reports, etc.
Priscilla
>SNMP seems to do exactly the same job (i.e. it provides information on all
>aspects of the network).
>
>I must be missing something ...
>
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