[mrtg] Re: Which is correct, bits or Bytes? - Throughput

[Alan Rader]

Well, I posted a question trying to figure out how to get mrtg to show me
total BW throughput.  I know they all convert and say the same thing, but I
feel they are over charging me because of this.  Say my average usage is
196kbits by them, then they are calculating with that and not converting it
to bytes and then saying I am doing xxGB/day which is Gigabyte and not
gigabits.

So, this is why I need to figure out the total BW throughput with mrtg and
make sure it is right.  Anyone else doing this, please send me your config
for it.

Thanks


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


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex van den Bogaerdt [mailto:alex at slot.hollandcasino.nl]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:02 PM
To: arader at finishline.com
Subject: Re: [mrtg] Which is correct, bits or Bytes?


Alan Rader wrote:
> 
> 
[snip stuff about traffic]

you monitor 26kBps with mrtg, same with performance monitor.
Your provider measures 26kBps with mrtg.

Seems to me that the numbers are correct. Three different monitoring
systems, with the same result.

> I killed everything
> I could think of that would cause a lot of traffic, smtp, snmp, ftp, http,
> dns.

Did you check the most obvious one, file sharing?

I wouldn't know which tools but there must be tools available to
scan the network traffic (from/to the box). Stop every service you
can (without locking yourself out) and monitor the traffic.  From
the port number(s) used you should be able to figure out what is
wrong.  Anyway, since MRTG doesn't have a problem you will probably
be better off when you go to a w2k specific list.

cheers,
Alex

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