[mrtg] Re: Question about cfgmaker and Netware NICs

[Steven Stringham]

Paul,
Netware 5 will respond with as many interfaces as are bound.  So, if
you have 802.2 (IPX) and EII (IP) bound to the same physical card, that
is still two logical interfaces for it.  But, the numbers reported are
for the physical card.  I would just identify which ports are the IP
based ones, and monitor those.

This becomes really obvious when using GETIF or something like that to
show the interface list.

Your friend bringing a new machine up probably is binding 802.2, EII,
and 802.3 or SNAP to the card, thus generating three interfaces. 

Good luck.



>>> "Paul C. Williamson" <pwilliamson at MANDTBANK.COM> 09:16:27 AM
07/28/2000 >>>

Hi all,

When I run cfgmaker against most of my Netware 5.x machines, I get 4
subinterfaces.  On all machines, I have two Network Adapters, so I would
expect 2 responses.  I'm not sure why it get's repeated.  When I
generate the graphs, I get two matching pair.  Anyone ever dealt with
this issue before?  The one set of identical graphs is obviously for the
traffic the card is handling, but I am unsure of what the other set is. 
Just wondering.

A strange thing happened this morning to prompt me to ask this
question.  Our network server person just put a new Netware server on
the network, and it responds with 3 subinterfaces.  If someone knows the
answer to the question above, this may help me to identify this
problem.

TIA!

Paul


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