Joel, I use mrtg successfully at numerous sites, i have a few observations, 1. Dump the public community, change change change it. It's a potential security issue. 2. Have you tried ./cfgmaker communityname@ipaddress >file.cfg. The notable difference is dumping the use of a fqdn and going straight for the IP? Some times mrtg is crazy like that. 3. You did not specifically mention whether your snmp service was actually up. The error you are getting is what i normally get when I have not properly configured the target snmp service. Last but not least, i'd post this to the mrtg listserv, it's actually very good and quite responsive. Please provide a follow up when you can... >Hello all, > I have been trying to install mrtg for a while.. but haven't had >any success.. I tried downgrading snmp but with no luck. when I run the >config file maker for mrtg this is what I get: ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com