[mrtg] Which is correct, bits or Bytes?

[Alan Rader]

I have setup mrtg to monitor my network traffic.  I just did the basic
cfgmaker command to find the main interface and it set the graph as using
Bytes.  Sitting idle, my server shows 24 - 26kB/s which should be kBytes
correct?

My ISP is also using mrtg and their graph shows bits and idles around
195kb/s which should be bits.  I know there are 8 bits in a Byte which then
196kbits = 24.5kbytes.  So, by his graph, I am doing gigs per day.  There is
no way.  So how do I tell who is correct?  If you compare the two graphs,
they are identical except for the scaling and numbers.  I killed everything
I could think of that would cause a lot of traffic, smtp, snmp, ftp, http,
dns.

It is a w2k server and I even opened up the performance monitor and started
graphing the same stuff and its numbers match that of my mrtg.

Thanks for any help or advice.


Alan Rader
Finish Line, Inc.
Network Administrator
arader at finishline.com
317-899-1022 x3529


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