[mrtg] Re: ISP cheating...

[William Schwartz]

somoeone correct me if I'm wrong here but: normally MRTG polls the
IFInOctets and IFOutOctets OID. All it does is take the change in that
number over time. But the actual numbers shouldn't change no matter how
often you poll it because the change over time whould still remain the same.

that is my understanding of the way it all works.

will


-----Original Message-----
From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]On
Behalf Of Fernando Medina
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 2:11 PM
To: MRTG Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: [mrtg] ISP cheating...


Our ISP uses MRTG to monitor our traffic on our link.  We also use MRTG
so we monitor out local serial port and they monitor their own serial
port.  We have access to their graphs and we are seeing a big
discrepancy in traffic.  After trying to figure it out, I notice that
they are updating their graph every 2 minutes, but they still say 5
minute average on the page.  If tehy simply changed their cron job to
run every 2 mintues instead of every 5 and did not change the actual
MRTG program itself it would show more traffic than there actually is,
wouldn't it?  We are on a test basis with thsi provider and I get the
feeling he is trying to screw us... thanks,


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