[mrtg] MRTG showing incoming data during time when PC is shut off

Rohit V Bhute rvbhute at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 04:04:05 CEST 2007


My setup is as follows
[PC1]<eth0>----------<ADSL modem DLink GLB-502T>
[PC1]<eth1>----------<sometimes connected to PC2 through crossover>

I have setup MRTG to log both eth0 and eth1. I have uploaded the graphs 
here.
Log yesterday night - <http://rvbhute.org/eth0-day1.png>
Today morning, when I switched on the PC. - 
<http://rvbhute.org/eth0-day2.png>

I did some note-taking. The speed it is showing is 1306KB/s - it is the 
last recorded current speed before I switched off the PC.

Incidentally, another problem is today morning when I switched on the 
machine, by default, eth1 was selected by the Ubuntu Network manager. 
Though I selected eth0 to get on to the net, MRTG has logged all traffic 
to eth1. - <http://rvbhute.org/eth1-day2.png>

Do I have to bind the interfaces to their MAC or something?

My /etc/mrtg.cfg is below:
# Created by
# /usr/bin/cfgmaker public at localhost


### Global Config Options

#  for Debian
WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg

### Global Defaults

#  to get bits instead of bytes and graphs growing to the right
Options[_]: growright
WriteExpires: Yes
EnableIPv6: no

######################################################################
# System: mark2
# Description: Linux mark2 2.6.20-13-generic #2 SMP Sat Mar 24 23:12:02 
UTC 2007 x86_64
# Contact: Root <root at localhost> (configure /etc/snmp/snmpd.local.conf)
# Location: Unknown (configure /etc/snmp/snmpd.local.conf)
######################################################################

### Interface 2 >> Descr: 'eth0' | Name: 'eth0' | Ip: '192.168.1.2' | 
Eth: '00-18-f3-6d-4b-17' ###

Target[eth0]: 2:public at localhost:
SetEnv[eth0]: MRTG_INT_IP="192.168.1.2" MRTG_INT_DESCR="eth0"
MaxBytes[eth0]: 1250000
Title[eth0]: Traffic Analysis for 2 -- mark2
PageTop[eth0]: <h1>Traffic Analysis for 2 -- mark2</h1>
		<div id="sysdetails">
			<table>
				<tr>
					<td>System:</td>
					<td>mark2 in Unknown (configure /etc/snmp/snmpd.local.conf)</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Maintainer:</td>
					<td>Root &lt;root at localhost&gt; (configure 
/etc/snmp/snmpd.local.conf)</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Description:</td>
					<td>eth0  </td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>ifType:</td>
					<td>ethernetCsmacd (6)</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>ifName:</td>
					<td>eth0</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Max Speed:</td>
					<td>1250.0 kBytes/s</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Ip:</td>
					<td>192.168.1.2 (mark2)</td>
				</tr>
			</table>
		</div>


### Interface 3 >> Descr: 'eth1' | Name: 'eth1' | Ip: '' | Eth: 
'00-17-31-2b-b0-85' ###

Target[eth1]: 3:public at localhost:
SetEnv[eth1]: MRTG_INT_IP="" MRTG_INT_DESCR="eth1"
MaxBytes[eth1]: 12500000
Title[eth1]: Traffic Analysis for 3 -- mark2
PageTop[eth1]: <h1>Traffic Analysis for 3 -- mark2</h1>
		<div id="sysdetails">
			<table>
				<tr>
					<td>System:</td>
					<td>mark2 in Unknown (configure /etc/snmp/snmpd.local.conf)</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Maintainer:</td>
					<td>Root &lt;root at localhost&gt; (configure 
/etc/snmp/snmpd.local.conf)</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Description:</td>
					<td>eth1  </td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>ifType:</td>
					<td>ethernetCsmacd (6)</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>ifName:</td>
					<td>eth1</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td>Max Speed:</td>
					<td>12.5 MBytes/s</td>
				</tr>
			</table>
		</div>
#### end of mrtg.cfg ####

Regards.
-- 
Rohit V. Bhute
http://blog.rvbhute.org



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