On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:19:25PM +0100, Damian Gerow wrote: > On Wed 08/10/29 12:04, "rgb" rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] net wrote: > > > It doesn't so much matter what the underlying > > > technology is. What's more important is whether > > > or not your modem supports the gathering of > > > statistics. > > It most likely does. I just had no information about it and didn't occur > > to me to look for hacks. > > It *does* matter about the underlying technology? Sorry, "It" is my modem being likely to gather stats. > (Apologies if I misunderstood you.) You misunderstood. I was not clear. > While we're on the topic, this is also a great opportunity to learn RRD. It's a fantastic tool, especially for recording and graphing historical information. Being the foundation of MRTG, and subsequently Cricket, Cacti, and a ream of other monitoring and pseudo-monitoring tools, it's fairly prevalent, and immensely useful. > I'm going to spend some time with Cacti in the next few days. I'll see if I can churn out a set of templates for the new SpeedTouch modems to make this a little simpler. GNet modems will have to wait; I accidentally pilfered my power supply for parts about a month back, and I need to find a new one. > - Damian slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________