You may have read that I have been trying to get MRTG to properly display the outbound traffic on several servers with multiple nics.

I have come to the conclusion that since MRTG is logging the ifInOctets and ifOutOctets correctly from the snmpd, the issue of no traffic on the second and third NICs are a result of the snmp daemon.

For instance, inbound traffic (ifInOctets) is being monitored by snmpd, but outbound traffic (ifOutOctets) isn't.

The more I research on the net, the more I realize that this is an issue with ucd-snmp. I have found pages dating back more than a year with this same issue. I even found some in Japanese.

However, I haven't found any info on how to correct this problem. Does any one have an idea??? Help!!

Apparently, this isn't a snmp problem.

One of the local gurus and an ex-coworker pointed out that Red Hat Linux uses a default gateway device, namely an ethernet card, as defined in the file /etc/sysconfig/network. They stated that this was the only safe�@way to configure the server, but this to me makes no sense. In essence they are saying that any packets received on any of the nics will be responded to via the eth0 card. Thus there is no outbound traffic on eth1 or eth2.

Are they correct????? What would the point of installing multiple NIC on a server that just hosts websites be, if all of the outbound traffic were directed through eth0.

If they are right, there has to be a better way to configure the server thus reducing the load on the eth0 NIC.

Help!! I have been digging through the web and can't even find confirmation of what they are saying.