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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Your config says bits and you say it reports in bits – Looks good
to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Change the bits to bytes or remove it as I think bytes is the
default.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Gary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Georges Touma
[mailto:georges.touma@navlink.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 27 October 2008 09:42<br>
<b>To:</b> mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mrtg] bytes v/s bits<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello List,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>We are facing an issue with MRTG where the Bandwidth
utilization on the polled equipment is showing in bits instead of bytes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Below is the header of mrtg.cfg file (Options[_]:bits
is set):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>===========<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>EnableIPv6: no<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>WorkDir: /rddbs/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Options[_]: bits,growright<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>RunAsDaemon: Yes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>LogFormat: rrdtool<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PathAdd: /data/rrdtool-1.2.19/bin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>LibAdd: /data/rrdtool-1.2.19/lib/perl<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Forks: 4<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I tried to set the option under the monitored interfaces
themselves but this did not help.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>===========<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>##### Customer: tools<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>## x.x.x.x - Interface 3<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Target[mytools_my-router-1_3.interfacegigabitethernet0-0]:
3:public@ x.x.x.x<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>MaxBytes[mytools_my-router-1_3.interfacegigabitethernet0-0]:
12500000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Title[mytools_my-router-1_3.interfacegigabitethernet0-0]:
Traffic Analysis for mytools x.x.x.x 3<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Options[_]: bits,growright<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>===========<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I also found a post where setting the 64 bit counters helped
but it did not work for me even though my equipment supports 64 bit counters.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>=============<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Target[mytools_my-router-1_3.interfacegigabitethernet0-0]:
3:public@ x.x.x.x<b>:::::2<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>=============<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any ideas/suggestions are highly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>---<br>
<b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Georges Touma</span></b> <br>
System and Network Specialist<br>
NavLink <ns5:place><ns5:City></ns5:City></ns5:place><br>
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