From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 13:19:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mordor.obitus.org (as6-5-7.fa.g.bonet.se [217.215.117.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7215537B407 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 13:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mordor (mordor [217.215.117.118]) by mordor.obitus.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g46KJM2c002887; Mon, 6 May 2002 22:19:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sauron@mordor.obitus.org) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 22:19:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Johan Huldtgren To: Adam M Ryan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mrtg monitoring ethernet card In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020506221012.F2862-100000@mordor.obitus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 5 May 2002, Adam M Ryan wrote: > When I use the configmaker I don't get any errors, but when I check my mrtg > generated files I see a huge input, 250kb. MRTG says its monitoring rl0, > which is my ethernet device. > > But using netstat -w 100 I only see an input of around 25kbs. What could be > causing the confusion with the input errors? Do I have snmpd setup > incorrectly? Has anyone seen any problems like this? My guess is take a look at your mrtg.cfg file. By default mrtg graphs in bytes not bits. Also having an incorrect value for the maximum speed of your network card will give funky looking graphs. The two lines you want to check are: Options[^]: bits and MaxBytes[localhost]: appropriate value when I created my cfg, with configmaker, it got the MaxBytes option wrong. HTH, - Johan _____________________________________________________________ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." - [Thomas Jefferson] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message