[Xymon] Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15

[Buchan Milne]

On Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:36:36 Sam L wrote:
> Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas about this?
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> Thanks!
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> From: s0a4m at hotmail.com
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15
> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 14:39:34 -0400
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> I've been running xymon 4.3.3 on Fedora 14 for a month or two without any
> issues.  I recently upgraded to Fedora 15 and now my "Network Traffic"
> graph in trends is no longer working.  They changed up something with
> network card naming in Fedora 15, and my NIC is no longer called eth0 (or
> eth<anything>).  The interface is now called p33p1.  Should xymon be able
> to figure that out on it's own or do I need to tell it to look for more
> than ethX?
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> s0a4m

Could you at least provide the *actual* output of 'ifconfig' ?

If only the names have changed, then most likely you just need to adjust the 
regex on line 22 of xymond/rrd/do_ifstat.c, which is currently:

"^([a-z]+[0123456789.:]+|lo)\\s"

Maybe it should just be:
"^([a-z0123456789.:]+)\\s"

Regards,
Buchan