[rtg] rated, new version of rtgpoll

[Matt Provost]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:49:45PM -0400, Charles Gucker wrote:
>       Just out of curiosity, do you have anything put together on the
> direction your planning on taking with the code base?    I think a
> number of us out here would like to know what others are thinking with
> the development direction.
> 

I don't really have solid plans at the moment. First on my list is to
move the target list into the database. I'd like to write a web front
end to the target list that isn't terrible and getting it into the db is
the easiest way of doing that.

Longer term I'd like to tackle the issue of data storage to see if I can
come up with something that can compress the amount of data that it
generates in a smarter way than RRD does. I think this is probably the
biggest complaint with RTG is the amount of data that it produces.

I'm also looking at making it better at detecting bursts of traffic.
That can't really happen on a fixed polling interval so I'm looking at
varying the interval based on the activity of the interface.

We'll see where it goes but I'm actively working on the code again so I
thought I'd share.

Thanks,
Matt