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19 Jan 2011 · misc

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18 Jan 2011 · misc

MRTG and network interfaces

17 Jan 2011 · hardware, linux, misc, networking, software, www

I tend to restart OpenVPN a lot due to config changes. As a result, this brings quite some issues to MRTG (or more precisely, SNMP), due to the fact tun devices change of ID.

A while back, I found a quick fix for this; rename the interface targets from their respective ID to their name:

Target[eth0]: 2:public@localhost

becomes

Target[eth0]: #eth0:public@localhost

For example:

#
# Eth0 stats
#
Options[eth0]: growright, nobanner, pngdate, nopercent, noinfo
Target[eth0]: #eth0:public@localhost:
SetEnv[eth0]: MRTG_INT_DESCR="eth0"
MaxBytes[eth0]: 1250000
Title[eth0]: Traffic Analysis for deng
PageTop[eth0]: <H1>Traffic Analysis for deng (eth0)</H1>
#
# Eth1 stats
#
Options[eth1]: growright, nobanner, pngdate, nopercent, noinfo
Target[eth1]: #eth1:public@localhost:
SetEnv[eth1]: MRTG_INT_DESCR="eth1"
MaxBytes[eth1]: 1250000
Title[eth1]: Traffic Analysis for deng
PageTop[eth1]: <H1>Traffic Analysis for deng (eth1)</H1>
#
# tun0 stats
#
Options[tun0]: growright, nobanner, pngdate, nopercent, noinfo
Target[tun0]: #tun0:public@localhost:
SetEnv[tun0]: MRTG_INT_DESCR="tun0"
MaxBytes[tun0]: 1250000
Title[tun0]: Traffic Analysis for deng
PageTop[tun0]: <H1>Traffic Analysis for deng (tun0)</H1>

Theme, blog, and stuff

16 Jan 2011 · google, hardware, linux, networking, software, www

As you noticed… Or perhaps didn’t notice, I’ve started using a new, simplistic theme a couple of days ago.

Kinda thought it might be too simplistic (I’ve hidden the sidebar, there’s no search or archive, etc), but I started to, you know, get attached to it.

So it’s here to stay, for a year or something. I guess.

I’ve also noticed that the long load times on my blog were WP_Buzz’s fault. Nice plugin, but 15 to 45 seconds of load time per uncached page wasn’t really worth it. Hope it can be fixed.