[mrtg] Re: Inaccurate Results

[Jeroen Geusebroek]

>Are you measuring bits or bytes?
>By default MRTG measures in bytes. In this case you have to multiply by
>8 in order to get the value in bits/s. You can adjust MRTG to show the
>values in bits through the Options command.

I'm measuring bytes, but my ftp client also measures bytes. Even if i
multiply by 8 it doesn't come close to the 7000KB/s i see with my ftp
client.

Regards,

Jeroen Geusebroek


> Hi there,
>
> I downloaded and installed mrtg-2.8.12 yesterday and i must say
> it's a very nice program. I only have one problem; the results
> that mrtg gives me are not accurate.
>
> I am on a 100Mbit network, but mrtg tells me there has only been
> a max of 364kb/s of traffic. This is not correct, because i was
> downloading from an FTP site with 7000+kb/s for about 10 minutes.
>
> I am also using it to monitor other NIC's for example my internet
> connection. This also does not show accurate results.
>
> What could be the problem? I am using Linux Mandrake Version 7.0-2.
> SNMP deamon is: UCD-Snmp version 4.01
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeroen Geusebroek
>
> P.s. The results can be seen on http://www.intercept.cx/mrtg
>
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