True. I actually made my own script which sits atop /proc/net/dev and monitors the changes in the values for Bytes-In Bytes-Out.
IMHO SNMP for this simple requirement opens up yet another port in your machine, and given the past security issues of UCSD-SNMP, it's not a good idea. If you have to use SNMP, i suggest firewalling it out to known clients via iptables. On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:06:50PM -0700, Jet Bagadion wrote: > > the computer where the NIC is installed should be running SNMP. you > > also need to learn the NMP OIDs for the NIC. let us know your setup. > > Not necessarily. I use a perl script called mrtg-eth.pl[1] by Mario > Witte and it works fine. It's uber-simple to use: > > Target[dsl]: `/usr/local/sbin/mrtg-eth.pl -d eth1` > > for example. :) > > --> Jijo > > [1] http://mrtg-eth.sourceforge.net/ > > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
