> If all you need to do with MRTG is monitor ethernet interfaces, running a full blown SNMP implementation > is a bit overkill. All the data you need is sitting in /proc/net/dev anyway and you can fetch it out with this > simple program written for MRTG available here: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrtg-eth/ Thanks Fred, I'll try that. However I do need to monitor routers. I just thought a first step to see how mrtg works would be to try the host interfaces. John