Re: (ASCEND) MRTG + Ascend = the age old questions

["William R. Charnock" <charnock@fastlane.net>]

I have been graphing the wanidle port on many of my customer's routers,
and the interface hasn't moved with reboots.  The only time the interface
number has changed is after a software upgrade.

--
William Charnock
CTO, FastLane Internet Services
(817)-429-5263
netadmin@fastlane.net

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Scott Kozicki wrote:

> "William R. Charnock" wrote:
> > 
> > On a pipeline, you can graph the wanidle interface without having to worry
> > about which interface they are actually connected on specifically.
> 
> I looked at that, but a) the wanidle interface defaults to 0 traffic and
> b) it still moves around between reboots.
> 
> Some people had recommended summing interfaces, but that doesn't give me
> an accurate reading of the bits passing over the pipe (especially if
> they're config'd for multicast, which they are)
> 
> I remember hearing that Ascend had a fix for 'roaming' interface
> numbers... something like you could lock interfaces down at an SNMP
> level, or use an OID to walk the int table and pull out the appropriate
> one by name (ie0). Anyone know anything about this?
> 
> Thanks again in advance,
> -- 
> Scott Kozicki
> BlueStar Communications
> 
>   "5 years in the Internet world is equivalent 
>    to between now and when the sun burns out."
> 

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