> > 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 > You'll be happy to hear that Cacti comes packaged with pre-defined data templates for several standard traffic stats, including interface Errors/Discards. If you're able to perform a snmpwalk of MIB-II (the standardized Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets) on your Speedtouch, then the Cacti templates will automagically work for you. Cacti also include pre-defined graph templates for these stats as well. IMO RRD & Cacti are indispensible tools for the modern network engineer and amongst my favorite GNU software packages MikeR.