[NTLUG:Discuss] another multiple address question

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:19:24 -0500, MadHat wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 10:33, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
>> Since my last question was answered so quickly by Stuart J., I figured
>> I'd throw another one out here. 
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to use MRTG to monitor virtual addresses? I'd like
>> to get tx and rx byte counts on a per-virtual-address basis. 
> 
> Depends on how you are running MRTG.  Are you wanting to run it locally,
> or remotely via SNMP?  If you are running it locally, you just need a
> script to output the data you want, which you can get from ifconfig.  If
> you are wanting to run it remotely, you have to configure snmp to
> display info on the virtual interfaces.

ifconfig doesn't appear to report TX and RX stats for the virtual 
interfaces. Is that stored in /proc someplace... perhaps...?

jack