On Nov 11, 2007 12:33 PM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 10:22 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > >> Can someone suggest what I need to put in the config file to view > >> everything happening on eth0? I have not yet put anything in config. > >> > > > > It's absolutely ages since I set up MRTG to watch my router. I did it > > the hard way, first. Pouring over documentation to work out what to put > > into the configuration file. Later, I played with the /usr/bin/cfgmaker > > tool that comes with it. > > > > Investigate the different files you find listed with: rpm -ql mrtg > > > > > /usr/bin/cfgmaker > Usage: > cfgmaker [options] [community@]router [[options] [community@]router ...] > > > I can probably muddle through the options with a few trials but I am > lost with "community@]router" > > My router is known only as 192.168.1.1 but I'm looking at the output of > the Wildblue receiver/modem and don't know how to address this except as > eth0 on box10, the computer in which mrtg resides. If the modem does not support snmp, or you can not configure the community on it, you may need to configure a Linux as router, make all traffic to cross it, and then point MRTG to one of the interfaces of that PC -- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06) http://www.go2linux.org
