From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 7 5:59: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from taka.swcp.com (taka.swcp.com [198.59.115.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ABFB37B419 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 05:59:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from inago.swcp.com (inago.swcp.com [198.59.115.17]) by taka.swcp.com (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta12) with ESMTP id fA7E18h98670; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 07:01:08 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (deichert@localhost) by inago.swcp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA09528; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 06:59:00 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: inago.swcp.com: deichert owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 06:58:59 -0700 (MST) From: Diana Eichert X-Sender: deichert@inago.swcp.com To: Troy Settle Cc: Blake Swensen , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: MRTG returning zeros In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Or write the filenames out with interface names instead of IfIindex values, then run a crontab script periodically that updates your MRTG configs to match the current data. We had to do that in order to deal with the vagaries of IfIndexes on Cisco Catalyst switches. diana On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Troy Settle wrote: > > If you set MRTG up to monitor a WAN interface on the pipeline, give it up > now. If the WAN connection goes down, the pipeline will use a new WAN IF > when it comes back up. > > The best you can do, is monitor interface 1 or 2 (I forget which is the > ethernet), which won't ever change. > > G'luck, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message