[mrtg] Wrong side of the router / incoming and outgoing

[Dana]

I have read the manual and I understand that by appling a - to the target 
MRTG will swap the incoming and outgoing data to reflect being on "the 
wrong side of the port".  I am rather new to router monitoring and am 
suffering from some lack of basic knowlege and potential confusion.

When graphing I always think off outgoing on the Ethernet port as passing 
onto the router and incoming as passing from the router to the local 
network.  On a serial link I always think of outgoing as going from the 
router to the link and incoming as going from the link to the router.

for starters is this correct?

Now, when working with MRTG i monitor some local routers and some on the 
other end of a serial link.  When I target a local router i leave the 
target with out the "-".  When monitoring the remote routers i also leave 
it without the "-".  My reasoning being that i desire my graphs to show 
incoming and outgoing as i have described above.  Is this correct?

Any help is good help
-Dana 


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