[mrtg] Re: bandwidth utilisation

Rich Adamson radamson at routers.com
Thu Mar 21 17:09:12 MET 2002


That may not be totally correct. The RRDtool can poll remote devices
at a much faster rate. If the tool is polling faster than what the
counters are rolling over, it could be beneficial. 

> Both MRTG and RRDtool have no way of knowing that a counter has
> incremented by more than 2^32. Switching to RRDtool doesn't help here.
> 
> The difference between RRDtool and MRTG occurs when a counter
> rolls over, say from 2^32-1000 to 1000.


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