Re: mrtg configuration

2002-10-23 Thread nate
Sebastiaan said: > so what you say is that SNMP has to be installed on a Linux box, since > Linux does not 'speak' SNMP out of the box? linux is a kernel, it doesn't have any way to respond to application level network requests(with the exception of the tux/khttpd webserver modules). You need a s

Re: mrtg configuration

2002-10-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > to be onest, I have no idea where SNMP is used for, but I read in the docs > > that mrtg is able to work without extra snmp installations. I just want > > the traffic on eth0 measured. > > snmp = simple network management protocol, mrtg uses it t

Re: mrtg configuration

2002-10-23 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:48:06PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > 1. does SNMP eat much CPU power? (it is going to run on a PI/133MHz/40MB > which is used for firewal/gateway/mailserver/proxy etc. for a small local > network) No. Doesn't generally use much CPU or memory. > 2. which package should I i

Re: mrtg configuration

2002-10-23 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
to be onest, I have no idea where SNMP is used for, but I read in the docs that mrtg is able to work without extra snmp installations. I just want the traffic on eth0 measured. snmp = simple network management protocol, mrtg uses it to gather network load information. you need to install snmpd

Re: mrtg configuration

2002-10-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, UnKnown wrote: > Hi, sebastaan > The mrtg contacts the gateway in your case 192.168.1.254 asking for the > statistics on trafic, normaly any router like Cisco or similar has the user > public define to give away that information. If you have a linux runing as > router you

Re: mrtg configuration

2002-10-23 Thread UnKnown
Hi, sebastaan The mrtg contacts the gateway in your case 192.168.1.254 asking for the statistics on trafic, normaly any router like Cisco or similar has the user public define to give away that information. If you have a linux runing as router you have to do the magic. Cheers, rak PD: I h

mrtg configuration

2002-10-23 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I am trying to visualize the traffic on my local network with mrtg, but I get some errors. My mrtg config file is this: # This file is for use with mrtg-2.5.4c # Global configuration WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg WriteExpires: Yes Title[^]: Traffic Analysis for PageTop[^]: Stats for MaxBytes[_]: 8