diff --git a/plugins/network/qos_ b/plugins/network/qos_
index b2a13302..06592904 100755
--- a/plugins/network/qos_
+++ b/plugins/network/qos_
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ if ( exists $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[0] eq 'config' ) {
     } elsif (exists $ENV{"max$queues{$key}->{handle}"}) {
       print $queues{$key}->{queue},$queues{$key}->{handle}, ".max ",$ENV{"max$queues{$key}->{handle}"},"\n";
     }
-    print $queues{$key}->{queue},$queues{$key}->{handle}, ".type COUNTER\n";
+    print $queues{$key}->{queue},$queues{$key}->{handle}, ".type DERIVE\n";
     if($count == 0){
 	print $queues{$key}->{queue},$queues{$key}->{handle}, ".draw AREA\n";
     } else {
diff --git a/plugins/network/tc_ b/plugins/network/tc_
index 46c38b65..7b29c7f7 100755
--- a/plugins/network/tc_
+++ b/plugins/network/tc_
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ case $1 in
 	echo 'graph_category network'
 	echo "graph_info This graph shows the TC classes traffic of the $DEVICE network interface. Please note that the traffic is shown in bits per second, not bytes."
 	
-	mytc $DEVICE | tr "_" " " | awk '{ print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4 "\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".type COUNTER\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".min 0\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".cdef " $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ",8,*" }'
+	mytc $DEVICE | tr "_" " " | awk '{ print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4 "\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".type DERIVE\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".min 0\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".cdef " $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ",8,*" }'
         exit 0
 	;;
 esac
diff --git a/plugins/network/tc_drops_ b/plugins/network/tc_drops_
index d4b5719b..f719291b 100755
--- a/plugins/network/tc_drops_
+++ b/plugins/network/tc_drops_
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ case $1 in
 	echo "graph_info This graph shows the TC classes traffic drops of the $DEVICE network interface, epxressed in packets."
 	
 #	mytc $DEVICE | tr "_" " " | awk '{ print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_drops.label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4 "\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_drops.type COUNTER\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_drops.min 0\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_drops.cdef " $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ",8,*" }'
-	mytc $DEVICE | tr "_" " " | awk '{ print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_drops.label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4 "\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_drops.type COUNTER\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_drops.min 0" }'
+	mytc $DEVICE | tr "_" " " | awk '{ print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_drops.label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4 "\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_drops.type DERIVE\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_drops.min 0" }'
         exit 0
 	;;
 esac
diff --git a/plugins/network/tc_packets_ b/plugins/network/tc_packets_
index 31aec7cf..8ae58204 100755
--- a/plugins/network/tc_packets_
+++ b/plugins/network/tc_packets_
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ case $1 in
 	echo "graph_info This graph shows the TC classes traffic packets of the $DEVICE network interface."
 	
 #	mytc $DEVICE | tr "_" " " | awk '{ print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_packets.label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4 "\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_packets.type COUNTER\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_packets.min 0\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_packets.cdef " $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ",8,*" }'
-	mytc $DEVICE | tr "_" " " | awk '{ print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_packets.label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4 "\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_packets.type COUNTER\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_packets.min 0" }'
+	mytc $DEVICE | tr "_" " " | awk '{ print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_packets.label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4 "\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_packets.type DERIVE\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 "_packets.min 0" }'
         exit 0
 	;;
 esac