Excessive network traffic -

[Ed Greshko]

Bob Goodwin wrote:

> This morning I installed MRTG but despite the documentation I have not
> been able to get it to display anything except :

I could be wrong...but doesn't MRTG use SNMP to gather statistics?  If the
device you are attempting to monitor doesn't support SNMP then that is what
I would expect...nothing.

> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ERROR: Mrtg will most likely not work properly when the environment
>       variable LANG is set to UTF-8. Please run mrtg in an environment
>       where this is not the case. Try the following command to start:
> 
>       env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> and then:
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg
> Usage: mrtg <config-file>
> 
> mrtg-2.15.1 - Multi Router Traffic Grapher
> 
> Copyright 1995-2006 by Tobias Oetiker
> Licensed under the Gnu GPL.
> 
> If you want to know more about this tool, you might want
> to read the docs. You can find everything on the
> mrtg website:
> 
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
> 
> -----------------------------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bob Goodwin
> 
> .
> 


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