[plug] Calling Linux, SNMP & mrtg experts

[Leon Brooks]

On Wednesday 10 October 2001 17:05, Craig Foster wrote:
> That being said, I used to use a shell script to find out stuff like that
> and run that from mrtg.conf

Specifically, parse something in /proc/sys/net/ipv4, or ipchains/iptables 
listings (cron job doing ipxxxx -vxnZL | script). Gawk is handy for a 
knock-together, but PERL or Python or Ruby would be better for something 
serious and all have more of a future.