[rrd-users] Bits/sec and GB/month

[Tobias Oetiker]

Eric,

Today Eric wrote:

> Hello group!
>
> Currently I'm not an rrdtool user but, my co-lo provider uses RRD for their
> bandwidth monitoring. Since recently they are providing me graphs with an
> Y-axis which as 'bits per second' and an X-axis which provides the time.
> On top (seperate graphic) there is a seperate graph which is tabular and
> provides me GB/month and MB/day.
>
> The problem is that this data is completely wrong (they are trying to overbill
> me for 800%) when I compare this number with the number of network packets on
> my NIC, or when I do 'live tests' with sending data and comparing this with
> their graphs. I'm trying to figure out how they are making this mistake.

Chances are that you see

Bits/s and GigaBYTES/month ...

there is a factor 8 between bits and bytes ...

cheers
tobi

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