[rtg] rtg status?

[Tim Price]

I've got some changes to contribute from the latest FreeBSD port.

One problem I've got which someone might be able to help with is this:

I run the rtg poller with Daemon Tools so when I make any changes / additions I restart daemon tools to restart the rtg poller.

This of course does a hard restart of the application and it does an initial poll of the devices and puts a huge spike in the data (especially if it's a gigabit interface).

Is there a way of doing a softer restart so that it doesn't have this effect?  It seems to me that the initial poll of a device should not be considered sane because as it's a counter value it will always be greater than zero and could be any value.

Tim Price
Unix Network Engineer
Telecom New Zealand International

-----Original Message-----
From: rtg-bounces at lists.grdata.com [mailto:rtg-bounces at lists.grdata.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Chadd
Sent: Sunday, 11 January 2009 11:30 AM
To: falz
Cc: rtg at lists.grdata.com
Subject: Re: [rtg] rtg status?

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009, falz wrote:

> I'll chime in out of the blue and say I'm interested in seeing such a
> thing happen! Hell I'll even submit patches for the FreeBSD port if
> this happens.

I'm happy to create and babysit a freebsd port of the googlecode project
source as long as others make sure its functioning as advertised.

I only look after a pair of switches these days; I've taken a break from
ISP and campus LAN world to work on software. :)


Adrian

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