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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You need to allocate a static IP to your
devices. For my network at home, I used to do it by configuring the DHCP to
bind a fixed IP to a particular MAC address, so I could be sure of always
getting the same IP. However, when I changed my router, I could no longer do
this, so instead I disabled DHCP and assigned fixed IP addresses to the
servers. Eventually, I reenabled DHCP, but gave it a smaller address pool (2-99)
and used the high numbers for fixed addresses on the hosts I wanted to monitor.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Something you might like to look into as
well (if it is configurable) is to set the DHCP lease time to something like 24
hours or more, to ensure a machine continues to get the same IP address, if it
is used daily. I even set mine to 1 week at one point, without problem.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you have a lot of coding skill, you
could possibly write something that uses ARP to identify MAC addresses and logs
counts against them but that would be lots of work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Begum Bolu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 27 October 2009
1:38 a.m.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [mrtg] how to configure
MRTG with a dynamic IP address</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Hi,<br>
<br>
I have a modem-router(Huawei E960) which sets up the IP addresses dynamically.
A pc that boots up first gets 192.168.1.100 and second gets x.x.x.101 and
so on. i only know how to setup monitoring network traffic by
using the ip address of the pc at the time of the
configuration. that works fine till the rest of the day but makes an issue
after shut down and the bootup order of the Pcs is changed. Basically it
doesnt graph any traffic after the ip address is changed.<br>
<br>
i searched mrtg mail achieves a lot yesterday. only found 2 possible solutions
but i am not sure neither of them. thats why i am asking for your help. one of
the solutions was reseting the registry of 'ip address lease after shutdown'.
my initial thought was assigning one ip address to a computer
indefinitely might create some problems later on. i might be wrong. if this is
a good solution, i would like to know the reasons. the second solution was a
dhcp script for mrtg by Eric Garnel. i didnt quite understand how to
modify the code and its pretty old message (way back in 2003). <br>
<br>
I really would like to get this MRTG working. Any assist that will help me to
achieve that would be appreciated.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Becky <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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