mrtg running on osx 10.5

I am running a software-router with DHCP and NAT but without any statistics or monitoring functionality. But I can do SNMP polls so I decided to give the popular mrtg (multi-router-traffic-grapher) a shot.

Mrtg is written by Tobi Oetiker, the author of the rrd-graph tool, and makes use of it. From mrtg’s website a short description: You have a router, you want to know what it does all day long? Then MRTG is for you. It will monitor SNMP network devices and draw pretty pictures showing how much traffic has passed through each interface.

I installed mrtg using macports via: sudo port install mrtg
The configuration is a bit tricky then, but not a big deal. If you need help or assistance just post your worries in the comments.

As proof of concept here is my updated mrtg graph: