[mrtg] Re: Capabilities of mrtg

[Brian Gregorcy]

Rudy Gerla wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> We have troubles with the performance in our network to try to determine the
> reason, I installed MRTG. the produkt is working perfect, but I want to be
> able to determine the reason, so I want to get more details in my graphs. 
>  
> For our internet connection we use a Sonicwall firewall and the server MRTG
> is installed on is a windows 2000 server system.
>  
> is there somebody who has  some suggestion?
>  
> Greetings,
>  
> Rudy
>  
>  
> 
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Hi Rudy,

You can point mrtg at a switch to see which interfaces are generating 
traffic, but I don't think that will tell you why they are generating 
traffic.  A better solution would be to take a look at installing snort, 
or some other IDS/packet capture utility.

http://www.snort.org
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