[mrtg] Re: Question on In & Out Stats

[Larry Sheldon]

> MRTG 2.5.3 is reporting that our T1 to our upstream provider is using 94.7%
> IN
> (1457.1 kb/s)
> 
> and 33.1% OUT (511.1 kb/s).
> 
> My question is do I add these two numbers together to get the total?  Or is
> the OUT part of the IN stats?  Meaning, are we using 94.7% of a T1 or  94.7%
> IN *plus* 33.1% OUT and we are totally saturated?

Nope--T1 kind of critters are full duplex--so you have a full inbound
and an underutilized outbound.

We have a couple like that--to bad nobody will sell us just an inbound pipe
at half price.
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