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

[Perry, Duane]

The setting "Options[_]: bits"  changes the display to indicate bits but the
log is still the number of bytes returned by the device.  The "bits" option
just multiplies everything by 8 and changes the labeling.  Do I understand
this correctly?  You think they are counting bits but charging you for
bytes?  When I have doubted some of my displays I use Getif or snmpget to
manually pull numbers and use a calculator to confirm them.  You could find
the mib for inoctets and outoctets and record the number at 09:00 one
morning,  then record them the next morning at 09:00 and subtract to get the
total traffic (in bytes) for the last 24 hours.  

Duane Perry

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Rader [mailto:arader at finishline.com]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 9:53 AM
To: 'MRTG'
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Which is correct, bits or Bytes? - Throughput



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


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