On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:07 AM, James B. Byrne<byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > I have snmpd and mrtg running and reporting against my Cisco router. > What I want to do is to configure snmp so that I can monitor > network traffic across the host's own eth0 NIC. Is this even > possible for a generic NIC running on a x86_64 or i686 host? Shouldn't be a problem since I was monitoring my server's own NIC traffic and load with MRTG before it stopped working. If I'm not mistaken, it's a matter of configuring snmp to check localhost in addition to your router's IP.