<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I want to check some client OpenVPN TUN interfaces with MRTG running at my VPN server, so I have to specify their OID interface numbers in mrtg.cfg. <br>The problem is, these numbers are dynamic, as they may change whenever OpenVPN restarts for any reason... so, how can I write stanzas such as <br>
<br>Target[somehostvpninterface] : ifInOctets.X&ifOutOctets.X:public@<SOMEHOST.IP><br><br>without wiring up the X interface number into cfg file? Or, is there any method to keep X from changing at the clients?<br>
Any hints appreciated!</blockquote><br></div><div>You can take a look at ifrename(8).</div><div><br></div><div>
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