On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:15:37PM +0000, Brian Brazil wrote:
> No help I'm afraid. Just provides a default for MaxBytes if I don't bother to
> specify it. The default behaviour of MRTG is to ignore a result if it is
> greater than maxbytes. Say I want to MRTG 'lo'. I was thinking '0' might
> do it but I found no reference to it on the web and that if this was so
> maybe someone on the list had come across it. And I don't want to ignore
> all values. Maybe I'll take a peek at the source...
Doesn't seem to be possible. The relavent code is hidden in 'rateup'
somewhere. '0' in no way works. More reading of source ahead...
> Acutally they were unrelated. In the last few hours I produced a nice
> script to take iptables counters and produce output suitable for mtrg.
> As it can add an arbitarily large number of counters together I can see
> things getting interesting. I'll throw it up on my website next time I'm
> on the net in case anyone has a use for it.
http://netsoc.tcd.ie/~bbrazil/mrtg-iptables.tar.gz
In production for over 3 hours without a hitch. I don't think that
classifies as 100% relability though...
Brian
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