[mrtg] Re: Pix firewall config and funny results

[Andrew Hull]

Mark,
Your first order of business should be to determine if the values that
MRTG is displaying are accurate. If MRTG is reporting the truth, then it
looks like someone behind that PIX is exercising the bandwidth in the
evenings as Britt suggests.
 
Andrew Hull

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 10:35, Mark Haney wrote:
> I just setup mrtg (on Windows 2000, it's an all MS shop here unfortunately)
> to monitor traffic on our 2 PIX firewalls, one in Atlanta and one here in
> Asheville.  The one in Atltanta monitors just fine, the results are pretty
> much what I expected them to be.  However, the results for the Asheville PIX
> are very odd.  The office is closed at night and on the weekends so there
> should be little if any traffic on the PIX. However, at nights and this
> weekend, mrtg continually showed the PIX with a constant usage of about
> 32KB/s in and 14KB/s out.  It never changes, just a constant plateau in the
> graph.  The configs are the same (except IPs obviously) for both PIXs.  Is
> this an mrtg issue?  A config issue or a PIX issue?
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Alea iacta est.
> 
> Mark Haney
> Network Administrator
> Interact Public Safety Systems
> 
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