[mrtg] Re: ISP cheating...

Michael Votaw mvotaw at telepath.com
Tue Jun 20 12:06:12 MEST 2000


Is your provider charging on the total number of bytes, or some function of
your data rate (peak, avg, etc)?

> -----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 8:11 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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