[mrtg] Re: MRTG monitors only interfaces?

[Marc-Adrian Napoli]

Brian,

> My company is planning on offering DSL soon, and wants to be able to
> monitor bandwidth usage per DSL customer. It was proposed that we use MRTG
> to this, we are currently using MRTG on our Ascends and it works great. So
> my question here is does the MRTG only monitor traffic via a network
> interface or can it be connfigured to monitor trafic on IP's too? If it
> only monitors via network interface does anyone know if it is possible to
> setup virtual interfaces on the router for each dedicated DSL IP...or if
> anyone knows how we can tackle this problem, or point me in the right
> direction your input would be greatly appreciated =)


MRTG can monitor any SNMP value you give it.

There are SNMP values that give traffic for each IP - so as long as you find
the right OID you will get the information you want.

(Try an snmpwalk on your hardware and see what you come up with!)

Correct me if i'm wrong anyone :-]

Regards,

Marc-Adrian Napoli
Connect Infobahn Australia
+61 2 92811750

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