InOctets and OutOctets.

[huytuan]

Most snmp management software would give the traffic flow of ports as InOctets and OutOctets which is very difficult to comprehend. Why don't they put a Megabytes field into the software so that it's more legible. Why none of these software measure the traffic flow in Megabytes??? How do I convert InOctets and OutOctets into Megabytes and is there any software to do the conversion???

[jamey]

1 octet = 1 byte

To make octets into Megabytes, take the number of octets/bytes and divide by 1048576 (which is 1 Megabyte).

e.g.

InOctets=530947572

would be: 506 Megabytes

-HTH

[huytuan]

Thanks jamey, but it would be most frustrating to do it everytime. Isn't there any snmp management software that does it automatically and displays for see.

[jamey]

A very popular (and free) SNMP based tool that is used to graph bandwidth usage is MRTG. Here's the URL:

www.mrtg.org

Since there are so many people that use it, you can easily find help on the Internet if you run into an issue. There are a lot of options and settings you can use with MRTG.

[SWC]

Have the same problem

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Problem?  Just shift decimal by 6 places, to left.

Under current recommendations/standards, a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes or octets.  See Wiki.

Certainly it would be convenient if you could shift display from octets per second, to thousands, millions or billions per second, but again, conversion is simple, just shift the decimal place.

BTW, if you're wondering why display is octets per second, octets are definitely 8 bits, bytes are usually/commonly 8 bits, and historically, data rates, once upon a time, were (somewhat) "fast" if the broke a 1,000 octets/bytes a second.  Even early LAN networks, struggled to break more than a one or two Mbps, or 100,000 octets/bytes a second.